EPIDERMODYSPLASIA VERRUCIFORMIS (LEWANDOWSKY AND LUTZ)
- 1 September 1939
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology
- Vol. 40 (3) , 422-432
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1939.01490030079012
Abstract
In 1931, Mashkilleisson1 presented an excellent review of epidermodysplasia verruciformis, describing in detail a patient with the generalized form of the disease and reporting briefly on a patient with the localized type. This form of dysplasia was first described in 1922 by Lewandowsky and Lutz2 and was reported in the same year by Fuchs.3 Table 1 is a modified summary of the cases included in Mashkilleisson's review. Mashkilleisson1 stated that the disease was a hereditary dystrophy with a precancerous tendency, because in 20 per cent of the cases previously reported there were cutaneous epitheliomas. The question of whether epidermodysplasia verruciformis is a definite entity or a special type of generalized warts, a view championed by Hoffmann,4 has not been settled. Epidermodysplasia verruciformis has been reported under the following titles: verrucosis generalisata,5 verrucae dyskeratoticae congenitales,6verallgemeinerte Warzenerkrankung, 4 verrucae disseminatae,7warzigen NaeviThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: