POROKERATOSIS MIBELLI

1 January 1943

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology

Vol. 47 (1) , 1-15
https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1943.01500190004001

Abstract

Mibelli¹reported the first case of porokeratosis in 1893. Moncorps²recorded 95 cases which had appeared in the literature up to 1931. From 1931 to 1941 we have found 24 reports dealing with 37 affected persons. Geographic location or race does not seem to play an important role. Cases have been observed not only in Italy but in China, Japan, France, Germany, England, Poland, Russia, Argentina, Switzerland and the United States. Lain³in 1928 stated that among the 70 cases which he gathered from the literature, including 3 of his own, 20 were from this country. We have found 7 cases reported in the United States in the past decade. The patients whose cases were reported by Ambler and Stout⁴and by Johnson⁵were both Negroes. CLINICAL AND HISTOLOGIC CHARACTERISTICS Because of the repeated clinical and histologic descriptions of porokeratosis Mibelli in the literature, we

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