In 1948, in an article based on a series of 10 cases, Sachs and Sachs1 stressed important facts pertaining to erythroplasia and noted unusual features of the disease. Furthermore, they challenged the concept that erythroplasia is a precancerous condition or a carcinoma and outlined a heretofore undescribed therapeutic regimen.
It is our intent to present a case of erythroplasia of unusual location that responded with apparent cure to the medication advised in the aforementioned report.
REPORT OF CASE
D. B., a white 62-year-old Jewish man, first consulted us on April 20, 1946. He complained of an oozing eruption of the scrotum (Fig. 1) and umbilical area of six months' duration. Accompanying this were pustular lesions on the index fingers and on the skin surrounding the left thumbnail.
At that time, the patient presented a silver-dollar-sized eczematous patch in the umbilical area. The scrotum, in the area contiguous with