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Seidlmayer's purpura
Also known as:
Seidlmayer’s disease
Seidlmayer-Kokardenpurpura (German)
Seidlmayer’s syndrome
Associated persons:
Johann Lukas Schönlein
Hubert Seidlmayer
Description:
A manifestation of purpura which occurs especially in infants or children after episodes of infections. It appears as a purpuric eruption characterized by coinlike elevated lesions.
Seidlmayer's purpura is comparable to the disease picture of Schönlein-Henoch purpura in older children. This condition is entered under Johann Lukas Schönlein, German physician, 1793-1864.
Bibliography:
- H. Seidlmayer:
Die frühinfantile postinfektiöse Kokarden-Purpura.
Zeitschrift für Kinderheilkunde, Berlin, 1940, 61: 217-255.
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