Pityriasis Lichenoides et Varioliformis Acuta

Abstract

Ulerythema ophryogenes (Unna).--G. B. DOWLING, M.D. Patient, female, aged 5 years. The condition has been present practically since birth. First, lack of eyebrows was noted, then erythema. There is slight irritation present.Present Appearance.-Erythema on eyebrows, forehead, between eyes, and preauricular area of face. Minute, closely set, perifollicular warty elevation throughout affected area. Hair sparse.Dr. A. M. H. GRAY said that Dr. Dowling's first case was very interesting. After seeing the condition to-day he did not think it would be possible any longer to maintain that it was urticaria pigmentosa; he did not think crops of herpetic-like vesicles occurred in urticaria pigmentosa, nor did he think the patches of pigment were permanent. Clinically, the condition seemed like dermatitis herpetiformis ; he was however surprised at the absence of itching. It was true one saw cases of the dermatitis herpetiformis which had no itching, but that was particularly so when the bullae were large. When the lesions were small they usually itched.Pityriasis Lichenoides et Varioliformis Acuta.-W. KNOWSLEY SIBLEY, M.D.V. W., female, aged 36, came to St. John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, May 29, 1930, complaining of a rash which had been " coming out " for one week and was accompanied by violent irritation. It had begun with general pains, some headache, sore throat, and vomiting, with a slight rise of temperature. Two days before she came to hospital she had been seen by several doctors, including the medical officer of health, who sent her in an ambulance to the South Wharf, Rotherhithe, Smallpox Hospital. She had then neither temperature nor pain, and

Assessment of the ‘no eosinophils' rule: are eosinophils truly absent in pityriasis lichenoides, connective tissue disease, and graft‐vs.‐host disease?

“…In a series of 15 patients, Black et al stated that eosinophils were ‘sparse to absent' 43 . In a review of 34 case reports of PL, 44–75 2 reported that eosinophils were either present 76 or ‘occasional’ 77 . The other 32 case reports do not mention eosinophils at all.…”