Transcriber’s Note:
Footnotes have been collected at the end of the text, and are linked for ease of reference.
The British Journal of Dermatology, April, 1905
THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY.
APRIL, 1905.
XANTHO-ERYTHRODERMIA PERSTANS.
By H. RADCLIFFE-CROCKER.
The above provisional clinical title was suggested to me by my coadjutor at University College Hospital, Mr. George Pernet, for a well-defined affection of the skin, of which I have met with ten instances during the last three years, all but one of them in private practice. I am not aware that the disease in question has been described before, unless it can be brought under Brocq’s “erythrodermies pityriasiques en plaques disseminées,” with which it will be closely compared when the cases themselves have been considered.
A case which I showed at the Dermatological Society of London in October, 1904, when Drs. Hallopeau, Gastou, Jacquet and Pautrier were present, was not regarded by them as a case of Brocq’s disease, with which they were presumably familiar, but as an entirely new affection in their experience.
The following description is drawn up from nine of the cases, all males, which, in the main features, closely resemble each other. The remaining case, a lady, had some important differences which will be discussed later.