Medicine:Stimson line

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Stimson line
Differential diagnosismeasles

Stimson line is one of the symptoms of measles, characterized by transverse line of inflammation along the eyelid margin.[1]

Eponym

It is named after Philip Moen Stimson (1888–1971), an American pediatrician who characterized it in 1926.

References

  1. Nelson Essentials of Pediatric Medicine