LXXI.—UNUSUAL PHENOLPHTHALEIN ERUPTION
- 1 December 1935
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology
- Vol. 32 (6) , 915-921
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1935.01470060080005
Abstract
Universal pigmentation due to the ingestion of phenolphthalein is evidently rare, for we have not been able to find any recorded cases. We ourselves have never previously encountered an instance of universal pigmentation due to this drug. REPORT OF CASE Tony C., an Italian, aged 45, entered the St. Louis City Hospital No. 1 on Feb. 9, 1929. He presented a generalized eruption, which consisted chiefly of relatively superficial polycyclic ulcerations and red-brown to dark brown pigmented patches, most of which surrounded the various ulcerations. The latter lesions varied in size from 2 or 3 cm. in diameter to huge circular, oval or polycyclic ulcers, some even as large as from 15 to 20 cm. They were thickly scattered over the entire body, even the face and scalp being somewhat involved (fig. 1). The diagnosis at the time of admission was obscure. Slight elevations of temperature had accompanied theThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: