Gougerot–Blum syndrome
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Gougerot–Blum syndrome (also known as "Pigmented purpuric lichenoid dermatitis,"[1] and "Pigmented purpuric lichenoid dermatitis of Gougerot and Blum"[1]) 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]
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