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BOWEN, John Templeton (1857 – 1940)

BOWEN, John Templeton (1857 – 1940)

1857 – 1940

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1912 CE

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

BOWEN, John Templeton (1857 – 1940)
BOWEN, John Templeton (1857 – 1940)

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.