Félix Balzer Explained

Félix Balzer
Birth Date:	4 April 1849
Nationality:	French
Occupation:	Physician

Félix Balzer (4 April 1849 – 15 March 1929) was a French physician, specialising in dermatology and pathology.^[1]

Balzer gave an early description of pseudoxanthoma elasticum in 1884.^[2] He used the term "xanthome elastique" but subsequently it was found not to be a form of xanthomatosis.^[3] Balzer is also responsible for coining the term "adénomes sébacés" (adenoma sebaceum) to describe the papular facial rash of tuberous sclerosis.^[4] Again, this term proved to be incorrect since the papules were neither adenoma nor derived from sebaceous glands.^[5]

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.^[6]

Papers

• Balzer F . 1884 . Recherches sur les charactères anatomiques du xanthélasma . Archives de Physiologie Normale et Pathologique . Paris . 4 . 3 . 65–80 .
• Balzer F, Dubreuilh W . 1884 . Observations et recherches sur l'érythrasma et sur les parasites de la peau à l'état normal . Ann. Derm. Syph. . Paris . 5 . 598–606, 661–666.
• Balzer F, Ménétrier P . 1885 . Étude sur un cas d'adénomes sébacés de la face et du cuir . Archives de Physiologie Normale et Pathologique . Paris . 6 . 564–76 . 3.
• Balzer F, Grandhomme . 1886 . Nouveau cas d'adénomes sébacés de la facea . Archives de Physiologie Normale et Pathologique . Paris . 8 . 93–96.
• Book: Balzer F . 1906 . Maladies vénériennes. Nouveau traité de médecine et de thérapeutique . Paris . J.-B. Baillière et Fils . 469–501.

See also

• Timeline of tuberous sclerosis

External links

• Biography

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ole Daniel . Enersen . Grönblad-Strandberg syndrome . Who Named It? . 2007-07-12.
2. Web site: Ole Daniel . Enersen . Bourneville-Pringle disease . Who Named It? . 2007-07-12.
3. Web site: Sharon Fletcher . Daley . PXE for Pediatricians . PXE International, Inc . 2007-07-12 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070608173644/http://www.pxe.nl/kinderarts.shtml . 2007-06-08 .
4. Web site: Sheila . Cincotta . History of Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum . MemberGram Vol. 2 No. 1 Spring 1997 . PXE International, Inc . 2007-07-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070122041702/http://pxe.org/news/2_1.html . 2007-01-22 . dead .
5. Book: Exposition et Symposium William Dubreuilh . Société Française d'Histoire de la Dermatologie . 2002-10-18 . 2007-07-12 . 20 . French . "William Dubreuilh et les Dermatologistes Français", Jean Civatte . 2012-02-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120206203849/http://www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/sfhd/catalog.pdf . dead .
6. Web site: Biography: Félix Balzer . Histoire de la Médecine et de l'Art Dentaire . Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Médecine et d'Odontologie (BIUM) . 2007-07-12.