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Medical condition
Stimson line
Differential diagnosismeasles

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

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


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