Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans historical perspective

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Overview

The first record of ACA was made in 1883 in Breslau, Germany, where a physician named Alfred Buchwald first delineated it. Herxheimer and Hartmann described it in 1902 as a "tissue paper" like cutaneous atrophy.