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| Year : 2022 | Volume
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Eponymous Signs in STIs
Navnee Jain1, Disha Baxi1, Yogesh Marfatia2, Rashmi Mahajan3
1 Post-Graduate, Sumandeep Vidyapeeth, Piparia, Vadodara, Gujarat, India
2 Professor, Sumandeep Vidyapeeth, Piparia, Vadodara, Gujarat, India
3 Professor and Head, Department of Dermatology, Sumandeep Vidyapeeth, Piparia, Vadodara, Gujarat, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Navnee Jain
3rdyr Post-Graduate, Department of Dermatology, Sumandeep Vidyapeeth, Piparia, Vadodara - 391 760, Gujarat
India
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DOI: 10.4103/ijstd.ijstd_101_22
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Eponymous medical signs are those that are named after a person or persons, usually the physicians who first described them, as a tribute to the pioneers in the field who have significantly contributed toward the present understanding of the subject. They also help in providing an easy milieu for remembering the particulars of disease with their diagnostic significance including signs, tests, criteria, laws, or reflexes. Besides paying tributes to stalwarts in the field, who dedicated their lives for this cause, they also facilitate our current understanding of the great masquerade.
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