Gougerot–Blum syndrome | |
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Other names | Pigmented purpuric lichenoid dermatitis, [1] and Pigmented purpuric lichenoid dermatitis of Gougerot and Blum [1] |
Pigmented purpuric lichenoid dermatitis of Gougerot and Blum | |
Specialty | Dermatology |
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Gougerot–Blum syndrome is a variant of pigmented purpuric dermatitis, a skin condition characterized by minute, rust-colored to violaceous, lichenoid papules that tend to fuse into plaques of various hues. [2]: 829 Relative to other variants, it is characterized clinically by a male predominance, pruritus, with a predilection for the legs, and histologically, it features a densely cellular lichenoid infiltrate. [3]
It was characterized in 1925. [4]
Gougerot–Blum syndrome is named after the French dermatologists Henri Gougerot (1881–1955) and Paul Blum (1878–1933).