A case of erythematodes acutus observed in a 24-year-old female has been reported.
Necropsy revealed besides the cutaneous lesions of the condition the following findings: 1) atypical miliary tuberculosis (the liver, the spleen, the kidney, the lung, the lymph glands, the salivary glands, etc.); 2) the so-called typical “wire loop” lesions in the kidney; 3) an old hyalinous tuberculous lesion in the lymph gland of the right hilum.
This case was surmised to be one of the cases etiologically related to tuber-culosis in the sense of the late “foci of infection” bacterial allergic mechanism, and the old hyalinous tuberculous lesion of the lymph gland of the right hilum was considered to have served as the foci of infection.
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