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Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq
Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq
BornFebruary 1, 1856
Laroque-Timbaut, Lot-et-Garonne
DiedDecember 18, 1928
NationalityFrance
Known forkeratosis pilaris
parapsoriasis
Scientific career
InstitutionsHospice la Rochefoucauld
Hôpital Saint-Louis

Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq (February 1, 1856 – December 18, 1928) was a French dermatologist born in Laroque-Timbaut, a village in the department of Lot-et-Garonne.

He practiced medicine in Paris at the Hospice la Rochefoucauld, the Hôpital Broca, and from 1906 to 1921, the Hôpital Saint-Louis. As a young physician he studied and worked with Jean Alfred Fournier (1832–1915), Jean Baptiste Emile Vidal (1825–1893) and Ernest Henri Besnier (1831–1909).

Brocq provided early, comprehensive descriptions of numerous skin disorders, including keratosis pilaris, parapsoriasis and a form of dermatitis called "Duhring-Brocq disease" (named with Louis Adolphus Duhring and sometimes referred to as dermatitis herpetiformis). Other eponymous skin diseases named after him are "Brocq's pseudopelade", a condition involving progressive scarring of the scalp, and "Brocq-Pautrier angiolupoid", a specific type of sarcoidosis of the skin named in conjunction with Dr. Lucien-Marie Pautrier (1876–1959). With Pautrier he also described "Brocq-Pautrier syndrome" (glossitis rhombica mediana), characterized by rhomboid and shiny lesions on the midline of base of the tongue.[1][2] Brocq is also credited for developing a tar solution used for the treatment of psoriasis.

Along with Ernest Besnier and Lucien Jacquet, he published a four volume encyclopedia of dermatology, titled "La pratique dermatologigue" (1900–04).[3]

See also

References

  • Louis Brocq @ Who Named It
  • Farhi, David; Wallach Daniel; Avril Marie-Françoise (February 2008). "Pyoderma gangrenosum is 100 years old. From Louis Brocq to biotherapies". La Revue du praticien. 58 (4): 457–61. PMID 18506988. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |laysummary=, and |laysource= (help)
  1. ^ Brocq-Pautrier syndrome at Who Named It
  2. ^ Glossitis rhombica mediana of Brocq-Pautrier Munch Med Wochenschr. 1950 Jun 10;92(9-10):349-52.
  3. ^ La pratique dermatologique OCLC WorldCat


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