Barlow R J, Heyl T, Simson I W, Schulz E J
Medical University of Southern Africa, Pretoria.
Br J Dermatol. 1988 Jan;118(1):117-23. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1988.tb01760.x.
We report pathognomonic skin lesions of malignant atrophic papulosis, accompanied by lethal central nervous system and gastrointestinal disease in a 22-year-old black man. Histopathological studies of the brain and colon showed areas of infarction and an underlying vasculitis with leukocytoclasis.