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Grouping Prurigo
Author(s) -
Ofuji Shigeo,
Ogino Atsuhiko
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
the journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1346-8138
pISSN - 0385-2407
DOI - 10.1111/j.1346-8138.1988.tb03650.x
Subject(s) - trunk , dermatology , medicine , goose , disease , palm , pathology , biology , ecology , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics
Abstract The skin disease we describe in this paper exhibits pruritic, inflammatory, solid papules that are grouped to form hen‐egg to goose‐egg‐sized, circumscribed lesions, usually on the trunk but occasionally on the extremities. The lesions do not spread in all directions but spread rather in only one or two, producing new papules while the old papules become flattened and leave pigmentation. After the lesions reach a size of a fist to a palm, or sometimes even larger, they begin to resolve. Usually a few or several lesions repeat remissions and exacerbations, taking a chronic course. We think that this disease constitutes a new clinical entity not yet reported.