FATE OF CENTRAL NEVUS IN LEUKODERMA ACQUISITUM CENTRIFUGUM
- 1 December 1949
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology
- Vol. 60 (6) , 1160-1166
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1949.01530070100009
Abstract
MOST accounts of leukoderma acquisitum centrifugum do not make clear what, if anything, ultimately happens to the central hyperpigmented spots that make this condition so distinctive. Neither Sutton,1 who originally described the picture minutely after Hyde2 had noted it, nor Leider and Cohen3 in their recent review discussed the eventual disposition of the moles. However, a few of the intervening observers,4 particularly in the foreign literature, remarked that the central pigmentations sometimes disappear. To quote one, Kuske4c wrote that " . . . one gets . . . the impression, from history and objective finding, that in some of the lesions undergoing enlargement, the nevus in the center is gradually obliterated by the depigmenting process . . ."5 In 1 of Sutton's 2 original cases, the mother of the patient (a child), stated that the central spot had not been present before the onset of the depigmentation. In consequence of such observations onKeywords
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- LEUKODERMA ACQUISITUM CENTRIFUGUMArchives of Dermatology, 1948