| Gougerot–Blum syndrome | |
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| DiseasesDB | 30753 |
Gougerot–Blum syndrome (also known as "Pigmented purpuric lichenoid dermatitis,"[1] and "Pigmented purpuric lichenoid dermatitis of Gougerot and Blum"[1]) is a variant of Pigmented purpuric dermatitis, a skin condition characterized by minute, rust-colored to violaceous, lichenoid papules that tend to fuse into plaques of various hues.[2]:829 Relative to other variants, it is characterized clinically by a male predominance, puritis, with a predilication for the legs, and histologically, it features a densely cellular lichenoid infiltrate.[3]
It was characterized in 1925.[4]
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References [edit]
- ^ a b Rapini, Ronald P.; Bolognia, Jean L.; Jorizzo, Joseph L. (2007). Dermatology: 2-Volume Set. St. Louis: Mosby. ISBN 1-4160-2999-0.
- ^ James, William D.; Berger, Timothy G.; et al. (2006). Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: clinical Dermatology. Saunders Elsevier. ISBN 0-7216-2921-0.
- ^ Barnhill RL and Crowson AN (eds) Textbook of Dermatopathology, second edition, McGraw-Hill, 2004: 211-212
- ^ synd/2079 at Who Named It?
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