|
Disclaimer:
Whonamedit.com does not give medical advice.
This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is meant as a general interest site only. No information found here must under any circumstances be used for medical purposes, diagnostically, therapeutically or otherwise. If you, or anybody close to you, is affected, or believe to be affected, by any condition mentioned here: see a doctor.
|
A recommendation:
Hypography is an open community about science and all things related
|
|
|
Cazenave's disease I
Also known as:
Lupus de Cazenave (French)
Leloir's disease
Associated persons:
Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave
Henri Camille Chrysostôme Leloir
Description:
An autoimmune collagen disease, usually chronic but sometimes acute, which is characterized by erythematous scaling patches of various configurations and sizes of the skin, which cause scarring and atrophy, and by the presence L. E. Cells. Acute disseminated and chronic discoid forms are recognized.
Bibliography:
- P. L. Cazenave:
Des principales formes du lupus et de son traitement.
Gazette des hôpitaux, Paris, 1850, 3 sér., 2: 393.
Gazette des hôpitaux, Paris, 1850, 3 sér., 4: 114.
- H. C. Leloir:
Recherches sur l’histologie pathologique et al nature du lupus érythémateux.
Annales de dermatologie et de syphilographie, Paris, 1890, 1: 708-709.
|
|
|
