1948/08/01 by PAUL E. BECHET, Paul E. Bechet, Therese Gregory-Bills +1
Psychology · #Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
paper · doi:10.1001/archderm.1948.01520210038006
IN 1888 Radcliffe Crocker 1 first described a telangiectatic form of lupus erythematosus characterized by symmetric persistent circumscribed patches on both cheeks, which on palpation were decidedly thickened and shot through with dilated blood vessels. The extensor surface of the hands was the seat of patchy persistent erythema, resembling chilblain, which after involution showed atrophic scarring. According to Crocker the patches on the cheek simulated the red paint on a clown's face. Under the term erysipelas perstans faciei, Kaposi, 2 in 1872, also called attention to the deep red patches on the face with purpura preceding the onset of lupus erythematosus acutus disseminatus. For the past thirty-five years, with one exception no articles on the subject have appeared in theArchives of Dermatology and Syphilology, and there are not more than seven unchallenged case reports in that journal. It is not described in the textbooks with the exception of Ormsby's