PubMed · 3089359
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R H Champion. 1986-06-28. Psoriasis.. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.292.6537.1693
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We herein report a case of a rare variety of the acute eruptive form of lichen planus. The patient was a 51-year-old male who developed an intensely pruritic eruption on the lower legs which spread rapidly to all four extremities and trunk within a few months. The papulosquamous lesions were more than ten thousand in number. Topical steroid, cyclosporine, and systemic griseofulvin treatments were ineffective. However, there was a dramatic response to oral etretinate.
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This report of a Harlequin foetus surviving is due essentially to two factors. a) the intensive care provided to the erythrodermic infant, looking after its nutrition, temperature control and controls of infection and b) the use of a new synthetic Vitamin A acid--Etretinate in the management of dyskeratinisation syndromes. As this is of autosomal recessive inheritance, besides genetic counselling, Singapore has to develop its prenatal diagnostic techniques viz-amniocentesis and ultrasound studies of the skin, to detect dermatological problems.