Disseminated Lupus Erythematosus in the Male

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Abstract
MOST reports on disseminated lupus erythematosus have considered it to be a diffuse disease of the collagen system occurring almost exclusively in young adult women. Blount and Barrett,1 reporting a case in a young man, make the observation that the occurrence of this entity in the male is unusual. All the 20 cases reported by Klemperer and his associates2 were in women, and Baehr and Pollack3 state that the most striking characteristic of the disease is its predominant occurrence (95 per cent) in young women. However, 3 of the 12 cases reported by Rose and Pillsbury4 were in males. A . . .