1. SUMMARIES OF PAPERS.
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DERMATOLOGISTS ,MEETINGS ,ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc. ,IRON deficiency anemia ,RAYNAUD'S disease ,BILE salts - Abstract
The article presents the summaries of the papers presented at the British Association of Dermatologists Fifty-fourth Annual Meeting, 1974 and Franco-British Reunion. Koilonychia is most commonly seen as a sign of iron deficiency anaemia. It also occurs as an isolated congenital anomaly, as a temporary normal phenomenon in young children and in association with Raynaud's phenomenon. The pruritus of obstructive jaundice is thought to be due to bile salt retention. The correlation between serum bile salt concentration and pruritus is poor however, and so far as we know, the effect of the individual bile salts on the skin has never been tested.
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- 1974
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