Biography Medical Eponyms Klippel-Trénaunay-Weber syndrome (1900) Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome (KTS) is a rare congenital cutaneous vascular malformation syndrome. Diagnosis is made with two of the three classic signs of localised cutaneous capillary malformations, venous abnormalities, and limb hypertrophy. Also known as…
These patients will be at high risk from a range of potentially life threatening complications that relate to the high degree of skin inflammation. The condition constitutes a true dermatological emergency and requires prompt resuscitation and referral to a dermatologist.…
Hulusi Behçet (1889-1948) was a Turkish dermatologist. Behçet disease (1936) ‘triple symptom complex’ of mouth aphthous ulcers, genital ulcers, and recurrent iritis
Behçet disease: chronic, multisystemic inflammatory condition involving small and large vessels of unknown aetiology. Characterised by the triad of recurrent oral aphthous ulcers, genital ulcers, and iridocyclitis with or without hypopyon.
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Robert Douglas Sweet (1917-2001) was an English dermatologist. Sweet’s Syndrome: Acute Febrile Neutrophilic Dermatosis.
Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert (1768 - 1837) was a French dermatologist. Alibert mentagra; Alibert disease, Alibert keloid; Alibert-Bazin disease
Louis Auguste Queyrat (1856-1933) was a French Dermatologist and syphilologist. Erythroplasia de Queyrat (carcinoma in situ of the glans)
Ralph Weir Grover (1920-2008) was an American Dermatologist. Grover disease (1970) - transient acantholytic dermatosis
Pierre-Antoine-Ernest Bazin (1807-1878) French physician and dermatologist. Alibert-Bazin syndrome; Bazin disease
Scarlet fever (second disease) is a bacterial illness (GABHS) that often presents as diffuse erythematous rash in the setting of a sore throat (streptococcal pharyngitis)
Frederick Forchheimer (1853-1913) was an American pediatrician. Eponym: Forchheimer spots enanthem in rubella in 1898