Henri Gougerot

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Henri Gougerot

Henri Gougerot (July 2, 1881 – January 15, 1955) was a French

Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine
. Gougerot is remembered for his work with numerous dermatological disorders.

In 1908 he earned his doctorate from the

syphilology, becoming chief physician at the Hôpital Saint-Louis. For his achievements during World War I, he was awarded the French Croix de Guerre
.

With

Sjögren's syndrome, however it is sometimes referred to as Gougerot–Sjögren syndrome.[2]

Gougerot was a prolific writer of over 2500 articles. He was the publisher of Archives dermato-syphiligraphiques de la clinique de l'hôpital Saint-Louis, and with Ferdinand-Jean Darier (1856-1938) and Raymond Jacques Adrien Sabouraud (1864-1938), was editor of Nouvelle Pratique Dermatologique; an eight-volume work on dermatology.

In 1928 he was appointed president of the Société française de prophylaxie sanitaire et morale, and in 1940 became a member of the

Académie de Médecine.[3]

The eponymous Gougerot's trilogy is named after him, defined as disease with three main dermatological symptoms (

macules, and dermal/dermohypodermal nodules) that typically affect the thighs and legs. Described by Gougerot in the treatise Trisymptome atypique. It is also known as Gougerot's disease.[4]

Selected works

See also

References

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Who Named It

  1. ^ Dermatology Online Journal Sjögren syndrome and systemic lupus erythematosus are distinct conditions; Noah Scheinfeld MD
  2. Who Named It
  3. ^ BIUM Univ-Paris Archived 2005-10-20 at the Wayback Machine (biography)
  4. Who Named It