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May 1920

ACRODERMATITIS CHRONICA ATROPHICANS: WITH REPORT OF CASE

Author Affiliations

Instructor in Dermatology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, University of Southern California; Dermatologist, Graves Dispensary, Los Angeles, Medical Department of the University of California, and Kaspare Cohn Hospital. LOS ANGELES

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1920;1(5):565-571. doi:10.1001/archderm.1920.02350050078006
Abstract

Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans is a comparatively new dermatologic problem of great theoretical and practical interest. In spite of a steadily increasing number of observations it is still a condition sufficiently rare to justify the publication of a new example. The case to be reported is one of such exquisite and clear-cut type and possesses so many clinical features of interest as to furnish an additional incentive for placing it on record.

The case was referred to the writer by Dr. Herman Sugarman of this city.

REPORT OF CASE 

Personal History.—  Mr. H. R., a Jew born in Russia, aged 44, married for twenty years, is the father of four children. The patient denies having previously suffered from any serious disease and regards himself as in perfect health excepting the trouble with his legs, which condition had caused him to be bedridden for the lastthree weeks. The patient is a driver

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