PIGMENTED PURPURIC LICHENOID DERMATITIS

Abstract

Under the title "Dermatite lichénoide purpurique et pigmentée," Gougerot and Blum¹described a condition clinically resembling Schamberg's "peculiar progressive pigmentary disease of the skin." At a recent clinical session of the American Dermatological Association (New York, June 9, 1934) one of us (F. W.) presented a man with an eruption possessing the clinical features of the dermatosis described by Gougerot and Blum. When the patient was presented we were unaware of the fact that Ormsby²devoted half a page to the description of this condition in the last edition of his textbook. We had previously arrived at the diagnosis after a perusal of an article on Schamberg's disease and related dermatoses by Meirowsky.³ Besides Ormsby's reference we have not encountered mention of this condition in the American literature. Ormsby's description follows: This affection was described by Gougerot and Blum on the observation and study of 4 patients.