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SUMMARYEleven patients suffering from malignant melanoma have been found to have varying degrees of vitiligo. The association of the two conditions may be purely coincidental; however, there are several features both of melanoma and of the vitiligo in these patients which suggest that there could be some relationship between the behaviour of melanoma and the development of vitiligo. The cases are reported with a view to pooling experience of a rare association of events.Depigmentation associated with malignant melanoma may take one of several forms, Milton (1969); the primary lesion may undergo total spontaneous regression leaving an amelanotic scar; all or part of a growing primary lesion may become amelanotic; the skin in the immediate vicinity of a primary melanoma may become amelanotic. Metastatic melanoma can also be associated with depigmentation because the deposits themselves are quite often amelanotic and rarely skin secondaries may show pale halos of depigmentation. The pale halos often develop after successful chemotherapeutic treatment or, on rare occasions, spontaneously.This paper presents eleven cases of depigmentation (vitiligo) which was not closely related to either the primary lesions or to metastases. The clinical course of some of these cases was unusual and a speculation is advanced that vitiligo associated with malignant melanoma may have some bearing on the prognosis of the disease. It is hoped that the publication of this report will stimulate a search for cases in which a possible correlation between vitiligo and malignant melanoma can be either proved or disproved.

ISSN:0004-8380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-0960.1971.tb00001.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1971

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SUMMARYA count was made of the eccrine sweat glands in 18 areas of skin of both male and female full‐blood Australian aborigines. Australian white males and females, of comparable age, were used as controls. A table showing the counts obtained in the various areas is included in the report.The conclusion was reached that while the eccrine sweat glands of the Australian aborigines and the white subjects are about equal in number, the aborigines have larger glands. The aborigines have fewer sebaceous glands and body hairs compared with whites.Some photomicrographs serve to illustrate the tex

ISSN:0004-8380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-0960.1971.tb00002.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1971

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SUMMARYIt has been known for many years that endocrine disorders have been found in women with rosacea. This disease is found more commonly in women who have menstrual abnormalities, or who are postmenopausal. There is, however, a paucity of adequate reports on the effect of simple hormonal therapy in the treatment of rosacea.This has prompted a systematic, longterm study of the influence of an oral ovulation inhibitor, namely Ovosiston, on this unpleasant and unsightly disorder.

ISSN:0004-8380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-0960.1971.tb00003.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1971

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SUMMARYMycobacterium marinum is reported for the first time in New Zealand. Three cases of infection on the hands of tropical fish fanciers are described with details of treatment. Probable sources of the organism were investigated and possible explanations for its presence in New Zealand are discussed.

ISSN:0004-8380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-0960.1971.tb00004.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1971

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SUMMARYAn infant developed, at the age of three weeks, a rash consisting of scaling papules, mainly present on the trunk and later spreading to the scalp. Biopsy showed a dermal infiltrate of histiocytes. The child was otherwise in perfect health and showed none of the other usual clinical features of Letterer‐Siwe disease. Full blood count was normal but a skeletal survey showed one lytic lesion in the right parietal bone. The skin was treated with betamethasone valerate ointment but no treatment was given to the skull infiltrate. By the age of 10 months the skin eruption had completely disappeared and the bony lesion showed radiological signs of healing. Together with fifteen other cases described in the literature, this infant shows that Letterer‐Siwe disease can be benign and self‐lim

ISSN:0004-8380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-0960.1971.tb00005.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1971

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SUMMARYThree new cases of acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis of Sweet are described. They are the first reported from New Zealand. No new light is shed on aetiology.

ISSN:0004-8380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-0960.1971.tb00006.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1971

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0004-8380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-0960.1971.tb00007.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1971

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Book reviewed in this article:An Atlas of the Ultrastructure of Human Skin. By A. S. Breathnach.

ISSN:0004-8380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-0960.1971.tb00008.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1971

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0004-8380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1440-0960.1971.tb00009.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1971

数据来源: WILEY