Koplik Spots

Description

• What is the actual eponymous medical sign/syndrome/repair/classification…

History

• 1778 – John Quier
• 1785 – JA Murray
• 1854 – Reubold
• 1871 – Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt (1833-1902)
• 1877 – Bohn
• 1880 – Nikolaj Flindt (1843-1913)
• 1897 – Nicolai Feodorowitsch von Filatov (1847-1902)

Associated Persons

• Henry Koplik (1858–1927)

Alternative names

• Koplikshe Flecken

References

Original articles

• Koplik H. The diagnosis of the invasion of measles from a study of the exanthema as it appears on the buccal mucous membrane. Archives of Pediatrics, New York, 1896; 13: 918-922. [Classic Re-Print 1997]

Review articles