DISSEMINATED ROSACEA

Abstract

SUMMARY.— Fourteen patients are described who, in the course of typical facial rosacea, developed papular lesions on the limbs similar in appearance to those on the face. In some cases the lesions were small and numerous; in others the individual lesions Mere large (up to 1 cm. in diameter) dark red or mauve and deeply set. The histology of these extra‐facial lesions resembles that of the facial lesions as far as the inflammatory cellular infiltrate is concerned but there is a more prominent vascular component. The relationship of these lesions to rosacea is discussed.