LICHEN RUBER MONILIFORMIS (MORBUS MONILIFORMIS LICHENOIDES)

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The prevailing general belief that so-called lichen ruber moniliformis is a variety of lichen planus does not receive support from our investigations of a dermatosis in many respects similar to the lichen ruber moniliformis originally described by Kaposi. In the present report the name lichen ruber moniliformis is used mainly for the purpose of identification. Eleven biopsy specimens from our patient failed to reveal the usual histologic evidences of lichen planus. An analysis of the cases recorded in the literature justifies the assumption that in nearly all those reported as instances of lichen ruber moniliformis the conditions were actually varieties of lichen planus. However, in a small minority the disorders certainly seem to belong in another category ; of the latter group Kaposi's original case and our own case appear to be outstanding instances, since the conditions in these cases were not related to lichen planus or to any other

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