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VERNON BOOTH DOWLER, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1932;44(6):1279-1284.

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The occurrence of multiple areas of defect in the skin of a newborn infant always attracts medical attention. Rather numerous reports¹ in the recent literature serve to enhance this interest, and the bizarre results of some unknown process affecting the cutaneous areas serve also to elicit considerable discussion as to causation. Lundwahl² has reviewed the several theories concerning etiology in a complete manner. Abt,³ in 1917, in the most thorough report, collected thirty-six cases from the literature. According to him, rupture of inflammatory adhesions between the external layers of the skin and the amnion, the so-called Simonart ligaments or bands, could give rise to the congenital defects. Greig⁴ stated the belief that it is more probable that the congenital defects arise from an arrest of development than, as has been reported, from the amniotic adhesions of the fetus.

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DODGE CITY, KAN.

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