. The ready-reference handbook of diseases of the skin. illiiilllM Atrophoderma pigmentosum. (After Crocker.) essentialis cum melanosi et telangiectasia (Neisser); Mel-anosis lenticularis progressiva (Pick); Lentigo maligna(Piffard); Epitheliomatose pigmentaire (Besnier). This isa very rare disease of the skin, first described by Kaposi in1870 under the name of xeroderma, to which he subse-quently added the adjective pigmentosum. Only some fifty-six cases have been reported. It is a congenital disease ;almost all cases begin before the second year of life. ATROPHODERMA. 95 Symptoms. It affects
. The ready-reference handbook of diseases of the skin. illiiilllM Atrophoderma pigmentosum. (After Crocker.) essentialis cum melanosi et telangiectasia (Neisser); Mel-anosis lenticularis progressiva (Pick); Lentigo maligna(Piffard); Epitheliomatose pigmentaire (Besnier). This isa very rare disease of the skin, first described by Kaposi in1870 under the name of xeroderma, to which he subse-quently added the adjective pigmentosum. Only some fifty-six cases have been reported. It is a congenital disease ;almost all cases begin before the second year of life. ATROPHODERMA. 95 Symptoms. It affects the parts most exposed to the air ;the face, neck, chest, and back down to the level of theclavicles, or even the third rib, the backs of the hands, fore-arms and upper arms. The hands, face, and neck are mostmarkedly diseased, while a few cases have occurred uponthe legs and backs of the feet. It begins with erythematouspatches, like those produced by sunburn. After a timebrown or black freckle-like spots form upon the erythema-tous ones. They are f
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