Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis (Lewandowsky-Lutz)

Under the title "A Case of a Hitherto Undescribed Skin Disease, Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis," Lewandowsky and Lutz1in 1922 published an article describing an eruption in a woman aged 29 who had had innumerable and widespread warty growths scattered over the body since early infancy. During the subsequent decade, 22 additional instances of presumably the same disease were recorded in foreign journals. These were collected and discussed by Maschkilleissen2in 1931. From that date to the present, 6 more cases have been recorded, of which the first 3 are European and the last 3, including our own, were encountered in the United States. This makes a total of 28 cases of dermatoses more or less resembling the original. In some the diagnosis was established by microscopic studies, while in others the diagnosis was based merely on the patient's history and the clinical manifestations. In view of the fact that