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Félix Balzer
Félix Balzer

Félix Balzer (1849-04-041929-03-15) was a French physician, specialising in dermatology and pathology. Year 1849 ( MDCCCXLIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I. Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, A physician, medical practitioner or medical doctor who practices Medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human Health Dermatology (from Greek grc δέρμα derma, "skin" and grc -λογία -logia) is a branch of Medicine dealing with Pathology (from Greek grc πάθος pathos, "fate harm" and grc -λογία -logia) is the study and

Balzer gave an early description of pseudoxanthoma elasticum in 1884. Pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE is a Genetic disease that causes fragmentation and mineralization of elastic fibers in some tissues He used the term "xanthome elastique" but subsequently it was found not to be a form of xanthomatosis. A xanthoma (or xanthomata or xanthomatosis) (from Greek xanthos, ξανθος, "yellow" is a deposition of yellowish Cholesterol Balzer is also responsible for coining the term "adénomes sébacés" (adenoma sebaceum) to describe the papular facial rash of tuberous sclerosis. Tuberous sclerosis or tuberous sclerosis complex ( TSC) is a rare multi-system genetic disease that causes benign tumours to grow in the Brain Again, this term proved to be incorrect since the papules were neither adenoma nor derived from sebaceous glands. An adenoma is a collection of growths (-oma of glandular origin The sebaceous glands are Glands found in the Skin of Mammals Locations and morphology A branched type of Acinar gland, these

Between 1880 and 1887, Balzer was a director of the histology laboratory in the Faculty of the hospital Saint Louis. He became a member of the Académie de Médecine in 1908. He was also president of la Société Française de Dermatologie.

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