Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans historical perspective

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Raviteja Guddeti, M.B.B.S. [2]

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Historical Perspective

• 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.