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Acne Venenata

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Contact with a great variety of substances can produce a follicular eruption which ranges in expression from the trivial to the terrible. The initiating lesion is the comedo in every instance. Acne venenata is therefore a species of the genus acne, not an acneiform eruption.

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  1. Department of Dermatology, University of Munich, 8000, Munich 2, Germany

    Gerd Plewig MD (Privatdozent)

  2. School of Medicine, Duhring Laboratories, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA

    Albert M. Kligman MD, PhD (Professor of Dermatology)

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Plewig, G., Kligman, A.M. (1975). Acne Venenata. In: Acne. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96246-2_23

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