Table I.
Twenty most cited dermatology focused eponyms
| 2020 rank | 1880-2020 rank | Eponym | Eponymous individual (Country, year of birth)∗ | Year of seminal publication | 2020 PubMed citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Leishmania | Leishman, William Boog (UK, 1865) | 1903 | 1320 |
| 2 | 3 | Behçet syndrome | Behçet, Hulushi (Turkey, 1889) | 1937 | 488 |
| 3 | 2 | Kaposi sarcoma | Kaposi, Moritz (Hungary, 1837) | 1872 | 360 |
| 4 | 8 | Langerhans cell histiocytosis | Langerhans, Paul (Germany, 1847) | 1985 | 251 |
| 5 | 12 | Mohs surgery | Mohs, Frederic E (USA, 1910) | 1941 | 239 |
| 6 | 11 | Merkel cell carcinoma | Merkel, Friedrich Sigmund (Germany, 1845) | 1875 | 234 |
| 7 | 4 | Paget disease† | Paget, James BT (UK, 1814) | 1874 | 225 |
| 8 | 9 | Stevens-Johnson syndrome | Stevens, Albert Mason (USA, 1884) | 1922 | 211 |
| Johnson, Frank Chambliss (USA, 1894) | |||||
| 9 | 25 | Meibomian gland | Meibom, Johann Heinrich (Germany, 1638) | 1666 | 210 |
| 10 | 10 | Ehlers-Danlos syndrome | Ehlers, Edvard L (Denmark, 1863) | 1901 | 203 |
| Danlos, Henri Alexander (France, 1844) | 1908 | ||||
| 11 | 14 | Still disease | Still, George Frederick (UK, 1868) | 1897 | 167 |
| 11 | 7 | Raynaud phenomenon | Raynaud, AG Maurice (France, 1834) | 1862 | 167 |
| 13 | 20 | Peyronie disease | Peyronie, Francois, De La (France, 1678) | 1743 | 155 |
| 14 | 13 | Henoch-Schönlein purpura | Henoch, Eduard Heinrich (Germany, 1820) | 1868 | 134 |
| Schönlein, Johann Lukas (Germany, 1793) | 1832 | ||||
| 15 | 5 | Langerhans cells | Langerhans, Paul (Germany, 1847) | 1868 | 128 |
| 16 | 16 | Sézary syndrome | Sézary, Albert (France, 1880) | 1938 | 103 |
| 17 | 40 | Merkel cell polyomavirus | Merkel, Friedrich Sigmund (Germany, 1845) | 2008 | 93 |
| 18 | 21 | Sweet syndrome | Sweet, Robert Douglas (UK, 1918) | 1964 | 90 |
| 19 | 28 | Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome | Vogt, Alfred (Switzerland, 1879) | 1906 | 89 |
| Koyanagi, Yoshizo (Japan, 1880) | 1929 | ||||
| Harada, Einosuke (Japan, 1892) | 1926 | ||||
| 20 | 27 | Fournier gangrene | Fournier, Jean Alfred (France, 1832) | 1883 | 74 |
∗
Barankin B, Stedman TL, Metelitsa AI, Lin AN. Stedman’s Illustrated Dictionary of Dermatology Eponyms. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2005.
†
Search term of “Paget disease” may also include a similar but distinct disease entity “extramammary Paget disease” and the non–dermatology-focused eponym entity “Paget disease of bone.”