Pityriasis Lichenoides Et Varioliformis Acuta

Arsenical Cancer: A Review

“…individual cells in the epidermis (malignant dyskeratosis); further, the continuity of the basal layer becomes destroyed (see Montgomery, 1935, fig. 2b Hutchinson, 1895 and1903;Montgomery, 1935, etc. (Pfahler, 1927;Montgomery, 1929;Wright and Friedman, 1933; Ellis, discussion to Anderson and Burpeau, 1945); even some forms of true cancer bear a striking clinical resemblance to lesions of psoriasis-psoriasiform basal cell carcinoma (see Sutton, 1939 lioma (Gross, 1931 Graham Little (1923) has mentioned the fact that this condition also frequently affects psoriatics, and many others have confirmed this observation: Ormsby and Mitchell (1925), Stillians (1931), Senear (discussion to Stillians, 1931), Wright and Friedman (1933), Parkhurst (discussion to Arday, 1938), Applestein (1941), and Ellis (discussion to Anderson and Burpeau, 1945 (1937, 1943a, 1943b and 1945) stuck to his opinion. In the discussion to Montgomery's lecture in 1941 he reported some 40 cases of superficial epitheliomas with arsenical keratoses of palms and soles; in one case at least arsenic was found in the urine.…”