New York Academy of Medicine, Section on Dermatology and Syphilis

    August 1925 in “ Archives of dermatology ”
    Fred Wise
    TLDR An 8-year-old boy with Recklinghausen's Disease shows various symptoms and is from a family with close genetic ties.
    Dr. Adolph Rostenberg presented a case of Recklinghausen's Disease (Abortive Type) in an 8-year-old boy, the youngest of seven children, with consanguineous parents. The boy exhibited multiple café au lait spots, reddish macules, a patch of alopecia areata, a nevus pilosus, an undescended testicle, poorly developed teeth, a highly arched palate, defective speech, and inferior mentality. The condition was first noticed at age 3.
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