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Kaposi's disease I
Also known as:
Wise-Rein disease
Associated persons:
Moriz Kohn Kaposi
Charles R. Rein
Fred Wise
Description:
A skin disease marked by numerous whitish punctiform papules and brownish macules arranged in a necklacelike pattern.
The condition is probably a rare variety of lichen planus.
Bibliography:
- M. Kaposi:
Lichen ruber moniliformis.
Vierteljahrsschrift für Dermatologie und Syphilis, Wien, 1886, 13: 571-582.
- F. Wise, C. R. Rein:
Lichen ruber moniliformis (morbus moniliformis lichenoides). Report of a case and description of a hitherto unrecorded histologic structure.
Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology, Chicago, 1936, 34: 830-849.
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