Zur Klinik und Ätiologie der Naevi

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Changing to the Chronic Discoid Type

“…Cases which began as the systemic disease were reported in the earlier literature by Siemens [2] and Ramel [3], Siemens described a 12-year-old boy with loss of weight, pains, psychic lability, low fever, many enlarged lymph glands and a cutaneous eruption resembling that of systemic lupus erythem atosus. One year later there were skin lesions compatible with a diagnosis of chronic discoid lupus erythe matosus and no signs of systemic involvement were present.…”

“…Reports which mention such a change [2,3,4,5] do not give detailed clinical or histological descriptions from the acute beginning up to the chronic stage, and the following two accounts may therefore be of interest. In March.…”