UNNA-JADASSOHN'S CUTIS VERTICIS GYRATA COMPARED WITH ALIBERT'S DERMATOLYSIS

Abstract

History.— On Feb. 8, 1922, a patient, aged 20, a shepherd from Caceres, entered the Clinic of Dr. Sainz de Aja at the Hospital de San Juan de Dios. His father had died at the age of 42 from gangrene in a wound of the foot. His mother died of cancer of the breast. He had six brothers, four of whom were living and well. The others had died in infancy of unknown cause. The patient had measles in infancy. At the age of 7, he had had a gastric fever which had lasted about a fortnight. He had had no other illnesses. He had heard his parents say that he was born with a small lump on the right side of the forehead approximately halfway between the eyebrow and the hair. He remembered that as a child he had seen this lump, about the size of a large hazelnut,