Etymology

Leser-Trélat sign

Today it means: The explosive onset of multiple seborrheic keratoses, sometimes a sign of internal malignancy as part of a paraneoplastic syndrome. Full definition →

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Named after German surgeon Edmund Leser and French surgeon Ulysse Trélat.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.