VOGT-KOYANAGI SYNDROME
- 1 May 1949
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology
- Vol. 59 (5) , 526-530
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1949.01520300036006
Abstract
THE SYNDROME of uveitis with poliosis, vitiligo, alopecia and dysacousia, to which the name Vogt-Koyanagi syndrome has been given, has been recognized as a definite clinical entity for four decades. However, reference to it in dermatologic literature is sparse. It has been discussed mainly in ophthalmologic literature, probably because uveitis is the presenting and most disabling manifestation of the syndrome. But its dermatologic features are often striking enough, and of sufficient importance to warrant the attention and interest of dermatologists and the enlistment of their assistance in the investigation of the many mysteries attending this fascinating syndrome. REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE Although Schenkl (1873) and Jacobi (1874) had called attention to depigmentation of lashes in association with chronic uveitis1and although isolated associations of other features, such as Gilbert's (1910) of vitiligo and iridocyclitis, had occurred, it was Vogt2who, in 1906, first described the syndrome. Koyanagi3Keywords
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