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Gougerot-Ruiter syndrome
Also known as:
Ruiter's disease
Ruiter’s syndrome
Gougerot-Duperrat syndrome
Werther’s syndrome
Associated persons:
Bernard Duperrat
Henri Gougerot
Maximillian Ruiter
J. Werther
Description:
An allergic skin disease characterized by erythema, papules, vesicles, pustules, exudation, urticarial oedema, cutaneous haemorrhage, telangiectases, and arteriolitis of the cutaneous vessels. Frequently, fever, malaise, arthralgia, gastrointestinal manifestations. Occurs in acute and chronic form. Prevalent in females (3:2); onset at all ages
Werther’s syndrome, or dermatitis nodularis necroticans, is a variant of this syndrome.
Bibliography:
- H. Gougerot:
Septicémie chronique indetérminée caracterisée par de petits nodules dermiques ("dermatitis nodularis non necroticans"), éléments érythémato-papuleux, purpura.
Bulletin de la Société française de dermatologie et de syphiligraphie, Paris, 1932, 39: 1192-1194.
- H. Gougerot:
«Maladie trisymptomatique de H. Gougerot»: Trisymptome asssociant petits nodules dermiques, cocardes d’érythème polymorphe, purpura.
Semaine des hôpitaux de Paris, 1947, 23: 1311-1315.
- M. Ruiter, C. H. Brandsma:
Arteriolitis allergica. Dermatologica, Basel, 1948, 97: 265-271.
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