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A Case for Diagnosis (ErythemaMultiforme?). Presented by Dr.HermanGoodman.
A woman visited the clinic of the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital on March 7, 1931, complaining of an eruption, reddish, rather symmetrical in its distribution and having a tendency to assume ring shape. The eruption was confined to the arms, neck and face. On the lower left eyelid was a rather flattened, yellowish-brown plaque, which had been previously treated. On the conjunctiva of the left eye, beneath the lower eyelid, the patient presented a small tumor.
The trouble had started two and a half years prior to presentation, with a swelling in the right leg, diagnosed as phlebitis, for which the patient had remained in bed for seven weeks. About two months later, she noticed a purplish flush of the neck and face, which shifted from place to place (not nodular at that time). There was no