INCONTINENTIA PIGMENTI (BLOCH-SULZBERGER)
- 1 July 1938
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology
- Vol. 38 (1) , 57-69
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1938.01480130060009
Abstract
In 1928 one of the present authors1reported and discussed the first case of the rare and peculiar dermatosis incontinentia pigmenti. His detailed report originated in the department of dermatology of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and the patient had previously been presented by Bloch,2of Zurich, at the meeting of the Swiss Dermatologic Society in 1925. Subsequently, at the tenth meeting of the Swiss Dermatologic Society, Naegeli,3of Berne, Switzerland, reported three analogous cases. In Naegeli's brief report familial occurrence, as well as the combination of the pigmentary anomaly with another familial dermatosis, was demonstrated for the first time. A father and two daughters, 12 and 9 years of age, presented the pigmentary dermatosis, while a third child suffered from a cutaneous disease which Naegeli diagnosed as hydroa vacciniforme. A fifth case of incontinentia pigmenti was reported by Almquist.4In Almquist's case a boy ofKeywords
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