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SO-CALLED COLLOID DEGENERATION OF THE SKIN

1925; American Medical Association; Volume: 12; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1001/archderm.1925.02370110018002

2376-3760

THOR JAGER,

Genetic and rare skin diseases.

Colloid degeneration, which has also been described under the title colloid milium or hyaloma, is a rare disease. I have been unable to find more than nineteen authentic cases reported in the literature since Wagner first described it in 1866. In addition to these genuine cases, a number of others have been reported by various writers which I feel cannot be accepted because they differ so materially, clinically as well as histologically, from the other cases cited. Liveing's 1 three cases reported under this title cannot be accepted as genuine, especially since he did not make any histologic examination of the lesions he described. Henry Fox 2 described a case of colloid degeneration of the skin, which later he himself admitted to be a case of acnitis, and therefore cannot be considered. One of Jarisch's cases published under the title of "Colloidoma Ulcerosum" should probably not be accepted either, although