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Résumé : We report two cases with chronic arsenicism. The first one is a young 37-year-old woman who presents leucomelanoderma. plantar keratodcrma. polyneuropathy of the legs and transversal striae of the nails. After investigations, criminal intoxication with arsenic caused by her own sister was discovered. The second case is a 42-ycar-old man who had developed plantar keratodcrma. arsenical keratoses and two squamous cell epitheliomas 10 years after a 2-year treatment with Fowler's solution for androgenetic alopecia. © 1993 S. Karger AG, Basel.