UNUSUAL ARSENICAL KERATOSIS
- 1 February 1937
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology
- Vol. 35 (2) , 286-289
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1937.01470200086012
Abstract
Reports of eruptions accompanied by keratosis of the palms and soles caused by retention of arsenic, as proved by clinical observation and by the presence of arsenic in the urine, the blood and the skin and its appendages, are not uncommon in the dermatologic literature. The lesions are more or less similar clinically, consisting of thickening of the horny layer in the form of discrete plugs, plaques or diffuse involvement, and vary in thickness. The occurrence of exfoliationen massein the form of complete casts of the hands, with arsenic as a causative factor, is rare, and the reporting of the following case is, I believe, justified. REPORT OF CASE An American-born housewife aged 33 presented herself at the dermatologic clinic of the Yonkers General Hospital on Sept. 28, 1935, complaining of a ``loosening of the outer skin of both hands, which began five days before as drynessKeywords
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