TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE IN TREATMENT OF MALE POSTCLIMACTERIC DERMATOSES

Definite clinical evidence is at hand that at various periods of the life cycle hormonal disturbances play undisputed roles in diseases of the skin. This is especially true of a hormonal gonadal disturbance, which is evidenced by such conditions as tinea tonsurans during childhood, acne juvenilis during adolescence, the so-called tumor of pregnancy of the alveolar processes, keratoderma climactericum of Haxthausen, senile vaginitis and keratosis senilis of the aged. Reichert 1 stated: "It is an old story that in juvenile acne, as in senile pruritus and in eczema of old persons, hormonal disturbances play a particular role and that a great many attempts have been made to influence these diseases with endocrine treatment." It has been observed that inflammations of the skin in older men frequently behave according to a pattern all their own. It is not uncommon for even an uncomplicated and mild dermatitis to assume major proportions of