AN UNUSUAL VARIANT OF EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA
- 1 March 1943
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology
- Vol. 47 (3) , 327-334
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1943.01500210029002
Abstract
A patient was presented before the Dermatological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine by Weber1with an unusual bullous condition involving the feet that occurred only during warm weather. The case was presented under the title "Recurrent Bullous Eruption on the Feet of a Child." No dystrophies of the appendages were noted, nor did any scarring, atrophy or milia appear following the healing of a lesion. Weber suggested that the condition might be a mild atypical form of epidermolysis bullosa. Sequeira, in discussing this presentation, indicated that he had never seen epidermolysis bullosa limited to the feet, the lesions always being much more generalized. The eruption in Weber's case affected only 1 member of a family. On the other hand, Cockayne,2in 1938, reported the existence of this condition in two family groups under the term "Recurrent Bullous Eruption of the Feet." He observed 3 members inKeywords
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