Francis Dercum
Biography Medical Eponyms Major Publications References Biography Eponymous terms
Category Dermatology
Robert Sweet
Robert Douglas Sweet (1917-2001) was an English dermatologist. Sweet’s Syndrome: Acute Febrile Neutrophilic Dermatosis.
Jean-Louis Alibert
Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert (1768 - 1837) was a French dermatologist. Alibert mentagra; Alibert disease, Alibert keloid; Alibert-Bazin disease
Louis Queyrat
Louis Auguste Queyrat (1856-1933) was a French Dermatologist and syphilologist. Erythroplasia de Queyrat (carcinoma in situ of the glans)
Ralph Grover
Ralph Weir Grover (1920-2008) was an American Dermatologist. Grover disease (1970) - transient acantholytic dermatosis
Ernest Bazin
Pierre-Antoine-Ernest Bazin (1807-1878) French physician and dermatologist. Alibert-Bazin syndrome; Bazin disease
Second 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
Frederick Forchheimer (1853-1913) was an American pediatrician. Eponym: Forchheimer spots enanthem in rubella in 1898
Fifth disease
Erythema infectiosum (fifth disease), is a common manifestation of infection in children characterized by low-grade fever, malaise, facial rash, and later by the spread of a lacy maculopapular rash involving the trunk and limbs.
Gustav Asboe-Hansen
Gustav Asboe-Hansen (1917-1989) was a Danish dermatologist. Eponymously remembered for his description of blister spread in pemphigus (Asboe-Hansen sign)
Sixth disease
Roseola infantum (exanthem subitum) is a viral illness that mostly affects infants and toddlers. Differentiated from other common paediatric rashes as sixth disease
Nikolay Sheklakov
Nikolay Dmitriyevich Sheklakov Николай Дмитриевич Шеклаков (1918-1989) was a medical mycologist and dermatologist, Sheklakov sign in bullous dermatoses