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The British Journal of Dermatology, April, 1905
THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY.
APRIL, 1905.
Xantho-Erythrodermia Perstans.
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.
So far, all the cases have been adults, though some of them were young. The lesions are evolved in patches of a pale pink or yellowish hue on the limbs and trunk, the uncovered parts, such as the face and hands, being free or very slightly affected. Generally, the patches come out very gradually and in small numbers and, in the main, symmetrically, but as the older patches never go away spontaneously, while fresh ones are continually evoluting at short or long intervals, large areas are involved, and in the course of years (in one case, months) the whole trunk and limbs are crowded with lesions, though there are always spaces of normal skin intervening, or sometimes completely enclosed by the diseased process, where the original patches have coalesced. For the most part the original patches are discrete and enlarge but little after their formation, unless they merge into adjoining patches, when hand-sized or larger areas may be formed.
With regard to individual patches, they are usually of oval or elongated form, arranged symmetrically in oblique lines on the back in the direction of the ribs, probably in the lines of fission, more or less horizontal in direction in front, and often, but not always, in vertical lines on the limbs. On the latter, especially the thighs, they not infrequently present the appearance of streaks formed by the finger, the upper part of the stroke being abrupt, and the lower shading off. This may sometimes also be seen on the trunk. The majority of the single patches range from one to three inches in their longest diameter; the borders are not very well-defined nor raised above the rest, but there is no difficulty in discerning the morbid from the healthy skin. They are not raised above the surface, but may be rather deep in the cutis. Infiltration can often be distinctly felt when the patch is pinched up in comparison with the adjoining healthy tissues, but in the more recent and smaller patches it is imperceptible, and occasionally they look like mere stains. Their colour is either pale pink or yellowish; in some cases the yellowish hue is pronounced, in others absent or nearly so; on the lower limbs the pink hue predominates. The surface is smooth on the trunk, but is often slightly rough on the arms and thighs, and below the knees maybe distinctly rough or even in branny scales. The patches are never so marked on the upper as on the lower limbs, the palms are always free, and the backs of the hands are generally unaffected, but sometimes there are a few small patches below the wrist. The face is nearly always free, though I have seen faint patches in one case. There is very little to suggest that the disease is inflammatory, and itching is quite absent in most of the cases; a few patients said they had some itching when hot, but only in one case was it really complained of, and that only in the early evoluting stage of the patches. The initial site for the lesions varies; the thighs are the most frequently first affected, the legs next in frequency, and then the trunk. The lower limbs, too, are generally more crowded with lesions than other parts.
The duration of the disease may be very long. My first case had been developing for over ten years, others had been only for a few months; but in the case of a medical man, over 50 when I saw him, he said that patches first appeared on his legs when he was a house-surgeon, and had been slowly evolving ever since, so that after thirty years he was pretty thickly covered, as none as far as he knew had gone entirely away, though they had temporarily disappeared when he had rubbed in chrysarobin ointment, but had gradually returned to their old site.
The disease is compatible with perfect health; and even when there was any departure from the normal there was no reason to suppose that the abnormality was in any way connected with the skin lesions, while the majority of the patients had above the average health for their age.
While there appears to be no tendency in the disease to spontaneous involution, they are not, as the case narratives show, altogether rebellious to treatment,