ETIOLOGY OF LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS
- 1 March 1936
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology
- Vol. 33 (3) , 434-445
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1936.01470090024002
Abstract
While many theories have been advanced, the causation of lupus erythematosus remains one of dermatology's unsolved problems. It is possible that there is no single causative factor, that there may be more than one cause and that two or more factors may cooperate in the production of the disorder. It seemed that additional data might be secured if large groups of persons were studied whose skins present such a striking contrast as do those of the black and white races. The hyperpigmentation of the Negro might be reasonably expected to give rise to marked differences in some biologic reactions. In a discussion at the Manhattan Dermatologic Society in 1918, Wise1stated that lupus erythematosus in the Negro race was relatively uncommon in his experience. Ochs said that he had observed a number of cases in Negro patients and that the disease was more extensive than in white patients (theKeywords
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