TINEA BARBAE INVOLVING THE UPPER LIP AND ACCOMPANIED BY DERMATOPHYTID
- 1 February 1931
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology
- Vol. 23 (2) , 213-220
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1931.03880200003001
Abstract
The following case,1 reported in brief, may serve as a peg on which to hang a discussion of some of the problems of ringworm infection. G. K., white, aged 44, a chauffeur, was admitted to the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital on Dec. 5, 1928. His daughter had been under treatment about three weeks previously for ringworm involving the region of the knee. The eruption on the patient's face was said to be of two or three weeks' duration. On admission, the whole left side of the face was greatly swollen and red and dotted with crusts and pustules; the inflammation had spread well across the neck onto the right side, and involved also the entire left side and middle of the upper lip. The hairs were loose and easily removed. The nodes on the left side of the neck were swollen and tender; movement of the neckThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: