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Historical Bibliography Updated: June 17, 2026

Precancerous dermatosis. A study of two cases of chronic atypical epithelial proliferation.

Publication Details

J. cutan. gen.-urin. Dis., 30, 241-55. 1912 CE.

Bowen, a Boston dermatologist, first described a precancerous dermatosis (“Bowen’s disease”), which is now considered to be a variant of an intra-epidermal basal cell epithelioma.

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Entry Number#4148
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/5835
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLprecancerous-dermatosis

Geographic Context

Mentioned in annotation: Boston