Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

CHANGE RETE PEGS TO RETE RIDGES

CHANGE RETE PEGS TO RETE RIDGES This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. Abstract To the Editor:—It may sound like sheer ingratitude, but I have to protest one word in the article on Marfan's syndrome by A. B. Loveman and coauthors, in spite of the fact that they quote my reports and opinions so graciously and liberally. I talked to Dr. Loveman, and it seems that an unfortunate lapsus linguae in redictating my histologic report caused "rete pegs" to be substituted for "rete ridges." The word "peg" in this connection stands for everything I have fought against in histopathologic description and anatomical teaching for many years. I have ridiculed this expression to my students, and in my exhibit on Structure and Function of Skin at the Academy and the AMA (Scientific Exhibits AMA, Grune & Stratton, 1955). I have spoken against it in my Pusey lecture on Four Dimensional Histopathology (Arch Derm 82:681, 1960). I translated Oberste-Lehn's paper on the Dermo-Epidermal Interface (Arch Derm http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archives of Dermatology American Medical Association

CHANGE RETE PEGS TO RETE RIDGES

Pinkus, Hermann
Archives of Dermatology , Volume 88 (2) – Aug 1, 1963
Download PDF
1 page

CHANGE RETE PEGS TO RETE RIDGES

Abstract

This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. Abstract To the Editor:—It may sound like sheer ingratitude, but I have to protest one word in the article on Marfan's syndrome by A. B. Loveman and coauthors, in spite of the fact that they quote my reports and opinions so graciously and liberally. I talked to Dr. Loveman, and it seems that an unfortunate lapsus linguae in redictating my histologic...
Loading next page...
 
/lp/american-medical-association/change-rete-pegs-to-rete-ridges-jhwunTu9bs

References (0)

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1963 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.
ISSN
0003-987X
eISSN
1538-3652
DOI
10.1001/archderm.1963.01590200113027
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. Abstract To the Editor:—It may sound like sheer ingratitude, but I have to protest one word in the article on Marfan's syndrome by A. B. Loveman and coauthors, in spite of the fact that they quote my reports and opinions so graciously and liberally. I talked to Dr. Loveman, and it seems that an unfortunate lapsus linguae in redictating my histologic report caused "rete pegs" to be substituted for "rete ridges." The word "peg" in this connection stands for everything I have fought against in histopathologic description and anatomical teaching for many years. I have ridiculed this expression to my students, and in my exhibit on Structure and Function of Skin at the Academy and the AMA (Scientific Exhibits AMA, Grune & Stratton, 1955). I have spoken against it in my Pusey lecture on Four Dimensional Histopathology (Arch Derm 82:681, 1960). I translated Oberste-Lehn's paper on the Dermo-Epidermal Interface (Arch Derm

Journal

Archives of Dermatology – American Medical Association

Published: Aug 1, 1963

There are no references for this article.