Although not used frequently in English, *Quincke’s edema refers to a German physician and surgeon. His name was Dr Heinrich Iränus Quincke. He was born in Frankfurt in 1842 and died there in 1922. He was a subordinate physician (Assistentarzt) at the age of 28 and became chair of the department of internal medicine at…
What syndrome is it and who is the author ? The authors are two physicians with the same first name. Dr Robert Gorlin (1923-2006) was initially a dentist and was interested in oral diseases. He joined the Minnesota school of dentistry as a stomatologist (histology and oral pathology). When he observed a female patient with…
This term comes from 2 Greek words : λευκóς= leukos = white θρίξ = trix = hair The term is less and less used nowadays. It is not found in recent dermatological textbooks. Leukotrichia means having white hair. Nevertheless, it does NOT give any precision whether this white hair is pathological or normal (a sign…
In the ancient classification (now obsolete), donovanosis was listed as the 5th venereal disease. In dermatology textbooks, it is known as Granuloma Inguinale ou venereal granuloma. As this infection is quite rare in Western Europe and that names are quite similar, medical students tend to find it difficult to make the difference with lymphogranuloma venereum…
