ERYTHROPLASIA OF QUEYRAT

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Abstract
This report is submitted to call attention to a relatively rare form of precancerosis, of which we have found no mention in the American literature. Although Paget1 in 1874 and Tarnowsky in 1891 recognized and mentioned diseases of the glans penis which were in all probability erythroplasias, the first detailed and exact reports of this malady in the literature are those presented in 1893 by Fournier and Darier,3 who designated it as epitheliome papillaire nu. Another French author, Queyrat,4 in 1911 devoted himself to a more exhaustive study of the condition and gave it the name of érythroplasie. Darier accepted this new name, and the disease is now generally known as the érythroplasie, erythroplasia, érythroplakie or erythroplakia of Queyrat. About forty cases have been described, and the condition is one which so invariably becomes a malignant neoplasm that it is universally recognized as precancerosis in the strictest

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