RESEARCH ARTICLE


Helen Ollendorff Curth and Curth-Macklin Syndrome



Khalid Al Aboud*, 1, Daifullah Al Aboud2
1 Dermatology Department, King Faisal Hospital, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
2 Dermatology Department, Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia


Article Metrics

CrossRef Citations:
3
Total Statistics:

Full-Text HTML Views: 595
Abstract HTML Views: 1907
PDF Downloads: 843
Total Views/Downloads: 3345
Unique Statistics:

Full-Text HTML Views: 372
Abstract HTML Views: 1070
PDF Downloads: 565
Total Views/Downloads: 2007



Creative Commons License
© 2011 Al Aboud and Al Aboud

open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

* Address correspondence to this author at the Dermatology Department, King Faisal Hospital, P.O Box 5440, Makkah 21955, Saudi Arabia; Tel: +966 2 5566411, Ext. 1110; Fax: +966 2 5563523; E-mail amoa65@hotmail.com


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.

Keywords: Dermatology, ichthyosis, skin.