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Leonard J Hoenig1, Uwe Wollina2, Lawrence Charles Parish3
1Private Practice, Pembroke Pines, Florida, USA.
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This contribution presents 14 dermatology-related eponyms that honor the patients who helped to define the clinical entities and disorders that bear their names or initials. These clinical entities and disorders include: (1) anti-La antibodies, (2) anti-Ro antibodies, (3) anti-Sm antibodies, (4) B-K mole syndrome, (5) HeLa cells, (6) Carrion disease, (7) Christmas disease, (8) Cowden syndrome, (9) Hageman disease, (10) Hartnup disease, (11) Mortimer malady, (12) rickettsiosis, (13) Schamroth sign, and (14) Trousseau syndrome.
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