RESEARCH ARTICLE
Helen Ollendorff Curth and Curth-Macklin Syndrome
Khalid Al Aboud*, 1, Daifullah Al Aboud2
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2011Volume: 5
First Page: 28
Last Page: 30
Publisher ID: TODJ-5-28
DOI: 10.2174/1874372201105010028
Article History:
Received Date: 18/07/2011Revision Received Date: 06/10/2011
Acceptance Date: 06/10/2011
Electronic publication date: 10/11/2011
Collection year: 2011
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Abstract
Helen Ollendorff Curth (1899-1982), is one of the pioneers in dermatology. In 1954, she and Madge Thurlow Macklin (1893–1962), an American medical geneticist, reported, a rare congenital genodermatosis that was later known as Curth-Macklin syndrome. This syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant skin disorder characterized by extensive hyperkeratosis and palmo-plantar keratoderma.