A CASE FOR DIAGNOSIS. Presented by DR. RICHARD KRING from St. John's Clinic.
L. McC., a married woman, aged 44, gave a history of having had two miscarriages, with five children living. At presentation there were dry, scaly patches on the elbows, knees and ankles, and some also in the hair. There was one shiny, irregular, circinate red patch on the right hand, with a duration of twenty-five years. The urinalysis and the Wassermann test gave negative reactions.
DISCUSSION
DR. KRING said he believed the lesion on the right hand was a syphilid, on account of its peculiar color and shape; the other lesions looked to him like those of psoriasis.
DR. MOOK said he believed all the lesions were psoriatic.
DR. WEISS remarked that he had not infrequently observed a circinate type of psoriasis which bore a striking resemblance to a syphilid. In this case there was some scarring
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