Alopecia Totalis Supervening on Hirsutism

Abstract

Section of Dermatology 369 view of the rarity of locally malignant tumours of this type, that it is of some importance to separate them, where this seems reasonable, from the. larger group of undifferentiated sarcomata. Dr. J. E. M. WIGLEY said that he had shown a case of multiple endotheliomata, of the scalp and face regions, about two years ago. The diagnosis, which was supported by Dr. J. M. H. MacLeod, was generally accepted. Clinically the tumours appeared to be exactly the same as in this case, but it would require further study of the sections to decide whether the histology was identical. The lesions in his case had proved completely radioresistant, and all that could be done was to excise the tumours as they became inconvenient to the patient. Alopecia totalis supervening on Hirsutism.-ALISON N. MACBETH, M.B., B.S. M. P., aged 28, a widow, came to the OutPatient Department of the South London Hospital, January 1934, complaining of baldness. She waa seen by Dr. Elizabeth Hunt and Miss Margaret Basden, F.R.C.S., to whom I am indebted for permission to carry out investigations. Dr. Levy Simpson kindly saw the case in