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DERMATOLOGY
Author(s) -
R. CRANSTON
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1961.tb69161.x
Subject(s) - dermatology , medicine
Seeorrhceic KERATOSIS is a common cutaneous disease, which most frequently occurs in elderly people, and especially, as its name implies, in those who have a seborrhoeic or unduly oily skin. Light, says Montgomery (Joum. Amer. Med. Assoc., 4th January 1913), particularly the actinic rays, is held now to be often the exciting cause. It is true there is no direct evidence, but phenomena appear, difficult