A Medical communication: The Sclerodenna bark, a hitherto undescribed symptom of progressive systemic sclerosis
✍ Scribed by Jerome Rotstein; Helen Geduluig Soloway
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1961
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 79 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3591
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✦ Synopsis
Recently, we have had under our care a 52 year old male who has progressive systemic sclerosis, which illness prescnted with a hitherto unreported symptom. We believe that it may be of some interest to describe this case.
In 1958 a 49 year old librarian developed an involuntary voice sound, which occurred every 2 hours and sounded like a tea-lion bark. These sounds occurred for a 5 minute period each 2 hours during the day and awakened the patient 4-6 times during the night. He consiilted several intcrnists and psychiatrists ahgut this symptom, without any definite diagnosis being mad.e. Hypnotism and psychiatric therapy did not ameliorate the condition. One year after the commencement of this symptom the patient developed Raynaud's phenomenon m d frmk esophageal dysphagia. During the next 12 months he gradually developed thickening