Božidar Puretić, M.D. (1921 – 1971) was a Croatian physician.
Born in Bjelovar, he earned his medical degree at the University of Zagreb in 1946.[1] He was a professor at the pediatric clinic, University of Zagreb.[2] In 1962, he described a case of juvenile hyaline fibromatosis as a unique form of mesenchymal dysplasia.[3] This very rare disease had been first described in 1873 by Dr. John Murray, a physician at Middlesex Hospital, and termed molluscum fibrosum.[4] Few cases were subsequently reported[5] and it had become almost forgotten before Puretić's case.[6] The disease is sometimes referred to as Murray-Puretic-Drescher syndrome.[7] He died in Zagreb.
References edit
- ^ Hrvatska enciklopedija: Pri-Sk (in Croatian). Leksikografski zavod "Miroslav Krleža". 1999. p. 106. ISBN 978-953-6036-29-5.
- ^ Kongressberichte: Genetics. Verlag der Wiener Medizinischen Akademie. 1971. p. 381.
- ^ Puretić, S.; Puretić, B.; Fisher-Hermann, M.; Adamčić, M. (1962). "A unique form of mesenchymal dysplasia". Br J Dermatol. Vol. 74, no. 1. pp. 8–19. PMID 14489244.
- ^ Murray, J. (1873). "On three peculiar cases of Molluscum Fibrosum in children in which one of the following conditions were observed: hypertrophy of the gums, enlargements of the ends of the fingers and toes, numerous connective-tissue tumours on the scalp and other parts of the surface of the body, with various superficial affections of the skin". Med Chir Trans. Vol. 56. pp. 235–254.1. PMC 1988914.
- ^ Gill, A. Wilson (1915-10-09). "A Case of Molluscum Fibrosum: (Von Recklinghausen's Disease)". British Medical Journal. 2 (2858): 533–534. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.2858.533. ISSN 0007-1447. PMC 2303157. PMID 20767846.
- ^ "The Gene for Juvenile Hyaline Fibromatosis Maps to Chromosome 4q21". Am J Hum Genet. Vol. 71, no. 4. 2002. pp. 975–980. PMC 378553.
- ^ Gaurav, Vishal; Grover, Chander (2021-11-22). ""Molluscum" Conditions in Dermatology". Indian Dermatology Online Journal. 12 (6): 962–965. doi:10.4103/idoj.IDOJ_928_20. ISSN 2229-5178. PMC 8653738. PMID 34934755.