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Richard Lightburn Sutton
American dermatologist, 1878-1952.
Associated eponyms:
Sutton's disease
A rare, recurrent disease of mucous membranes.
Sutton's naevus
A skin disorder characterized by a sharply defined halo of hypomelanosis developing around a cutaneous nevus in the process of destruction.
Sutton's phenomenon
The loss or disappearance of pigments in Sutton's naevus.
Biography:
Bibliography:
- An Arctic safari, with camera and rifle in the land of the midnight sun... With more than one hundred illustrations, made from photographs taken by the author and by Richard L. Sutton, jr.,...
St. Louis, The C.V. Mosby co., 1932.
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