LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS PROFUNDUS (KAPOSI-IRGANG)
- 1 February 1948
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology
- Vol. 57 (2) , 196-203
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1948.01520140058007
Abstract
THE BASIC division of lupus erythematosus into the unspecified (or discoid) and disseminated forms, as followed in most textbooks and in the "Standard Nomenclature of Disease and Operations," does not take into account the subcutaneous nodular form which the lesions of this disease may rarely assume. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND No mention of this variant of lupus erythematosus is made by Morrow (1894),1 Shoemaker (1900),2 Hyde and Montgomery (1904),3 Stelwagon (1910),4 Hartzell (1917),5 Andrews (1938)6 or Sutton and Sutton (1939).7 Andrews (1938)6 did mention sarcoid of Boeck as one of the diseases from which acute disseminated lupus erythematosus might have to be distinguished, but it seems clear that this was not an allusion to a subcutaneous or nodular form of lupus erythematosus. Andrews, in the third edition of his text (1946),8 referred under the name "lupus erythematosus profundus" to that form of theKeywords
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