Gougerot–Blum syndrome

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]

Gougerot–Blum syndrome
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
Named after	Henri Gougerot Paul Blum

It was characterized in 1925.^[4]

Gougerot–Blum syndrome is named after the French dermatologists Henri Gougerot (1881–1955) and Paul Blum (1878–1933).

See also

• Pigmentary purpuric eruptions
• Skin lesion
• List of cutaneous conditions