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Gougerot–Blum syndrome
Gougerot–Blum syndrome
Other names	Pigmented purpuric lichenoid dermatitis, and Pigmented purpuric lichenoid dermatitis of Gougerot and Blum
	Pigmented purpuric lichenoid dermatitis of Gougerot and Blum
Specialty	Dermatology
Named after	Henri Gougerot; Paul Blum;

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).

References

^ ^a ^b Rapini, Ronald P.; Bolognia, Jean L.; Jorizzo, Joseph L. (2007). Dermatology: 2-Volume Set. St. Louis: Mosby. ISBN 978-1-4160-2999-1.
^ James, William D.; Berger, Timothy G.; et al. (2006). Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: clinical Dermatology. Saunders Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-7216-2921-6.
^ Barnhill RL and Crowson AN (eds) Textbook of Dermatopathology, second edition, McGraw-Hill, 2004: 211-212
^ synd/2079 at Who Named It?