| Abstrakt: |
Several articles have appeared recently in European medical literature describing a chronic afebrile disorder which occurs as a rule in young women and is characterized by painful, indurated areas of erythema about the ankles. Meachen,1 in 1914, published an account of a case of "persistent erythema of an erythromelalgic type" accompanied by pains in the legs, which was relieved by assuming the horizontal position. Stott and Dore,2 in 1922, demonstrated a similar case before the Royal Society of Medicine. Their patient was a girl, aged 16, who had had attacks of bright red erythema, accompanied by edema and by acute tenderness, especially toward night. There had been no constitutional disturbance. MacCormac3 demonstrated two cases before the same society two months later. One of the patients was a woman, aged 42. She gave a history of tuberculous adenitis and of a recent acute pleurisy. There was a patch |
