VITILIGO OF UPPER LIP IN PLAYERS OF WIND INSTRUMENTS

1 December 1943

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology

Vol. 48 (6) , 605
https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1943.01510060029003

Abstract

During the past three years one of us (C. W. F.) has observed 5 instances in which a member of a band who played some type of horn acquired vitiligo in the center of the upper lip. All of these patients were Negroes. Recently another eruption of this type was observed in a white trumpeter by one of us (H. H. H.). The literature contains no similar observations, and the book on "Occupational Diseases of the Skin" by Schwartz and Tulipan¹ records none. In a personal interview Dr. Schwartz stated that no such instance had been reported, but that the condition might well come from a wooden mouth piece or from metal polish. A careful history of our 6 cases revealed the fact that in each instance the mouth piece was of brass and no polish had been used on it. It is worthy of note that there

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