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Hutchinson's angina

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A skin disease usually affecting women, characterized by minute vascular ectasies appearing as compressible red or purple punctate lesion, arranged in a serpiginous pattern.

Bibliography

  • J. Hutchinson:
    A peculiar form of serpiginous and infective naevoid disease.
    1889. Infective angioma or naevus-lupus.
    Archives of Surgery, London, 1891-1892, 3: 166-168.

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