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Hidradenitis Suppurativa/Acne Inversa/Dissecting Terminal Hair Folliculitis

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What we today name dissecting terminal hair folliculitis (DTHF) has lurked in the literature under several synonyms, namely, Velpeau’s disease (1839), Verneuil’s disease (1854), hidradenitis destruens suppurativa (Pollitzer 1892), follicular occlusion triad (Pillibury, Shelley, and Kligman 1956), acne tetrad (Plewig and Kligman 1975), acne inversa (Plewig and Steger 1989), and dissecting terminal folliculitis (Plewig 2009). The most famous sufferer of acne inversa was Karl Marx.

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  3. Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    WenChieh Chen

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Plewig, G., Melnik, B., Chen, W. (2019). Hidradenitis Suppurativa/Acne Inversa/Dissecting Terminal Hair Folliculitis. In: Plewig and Kligman´s Acne and Rosacea. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49274-2_11

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