The roentgen-ray in the treatment of skin diseases / Howard Fox, M.D., New York.

  • Fox, Howard, 1873-1947
Date:
1924
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Credit: The roentgen-ray in the treatment of skin diseases / Howard Fox, M.D., New York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES Lichen nitidus is a disease in which, according to Trimble and Maloney, “treatment has very little if any effect in most cases.” In a patient under my care (included in Trimble and Maloney’s 42 recent report on the subject) favorable results were obtained by the roentgen ray. One area was treated experimentally with fractional doses (one fourth skin unit) and entirely disappeared. As a result, the remaining groups of papules were irradiated, and the entire eruption had nearly disappeared when the patient discontinued treatment. Lingua geographica is another disease which to my knowledge has not been previously treated by the roentgen ray, although Ormsby states that in this condition “radium has been successfully employed” a b Fig. 8.—A, lingua geographica; B, after two treatments of one-fourth skin unit. The patient had been entirely free from the disease for seven months. by him “in several instances.” One of my patients was a girl, aged 22, who had suffered almost continuously from the disease for ten years. Previous to treatment she had never had more than a week of freedom from the disease, which in her case was the occasion of considerable discomfort after eating. Two treatments with one-half skin unit each gave her complete relief, and up to the time of writing (seven months after treatment) she had been entirely free from her affliction. In another case, a man, aged 38, who had suffered from the same con¬ dition for twelve years, the result, while most satisfactory, was not as brilliant. To give him relief it was necessary to irradiate the tongue on five occasions. The time is of course foo short to judge of the 42. Trimble, W. B., and Maloney, E. R.: Lichen nitidus, Arch. Dermat. & Syph. 7:452 (April) 1923.