| Robert Degos | |||||||||
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| Birth Date: | 8 November 1904 | ||||||||
| Birth Place: | Mugron, France | ||||||||
| Death Place: | Paris, France | ||||||||
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Robert Degos (1904–1987) was a French dermatologist who described several dermatoses including Degos disease which he first described in a seminal paper published in 1942 in the French journal of dermatology and syphilology.[1]
He became an "interne des Hopitaux de Paris" in 1926 and trained at the Hopital Broca before joining the Hopital Saint-Louis in 1931 in the Department of another renown dermatologist, Gaston Auguste Milian.[2] But it is Henri Gougerot in whose department he worked and trained in 1933 as "chef de clinique" - and who ultimately became his mentor - who influenced his choice of specializing in dermatology.[3]
Degos became the "Chair in skin and syphilitic diseases" and chief of the first department of Dermatology at the Hopital Saint-Louis in 1951.[3]
He was widely published including a classic textbook, Dermatologie, that was "the bible of all French Dermatologists for several decades and reflects the type of Dermatology Prof. Degos practiced, conceptualized and taught".[3] Since its first publication in 1953, Dermatologie has undergone several editions and updates.