Albert Touraine (11 November 1883 – 3 May 1961) was a French dermatologist.
He studied medicine at the University of Paris as a pupil of Eugène Apert and Émile Achard. In 1912 he received his doctorate with the thesis Les anticorps syphilitiques : essais de séro-agglutination de la syphilis.Touraine, Albert (1883-1961) IdRef (bibliography) In 1932 he was named senior physician at the Hôpital Saint-Louis.
Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (or "Christ-Siemens-Touraine syndrome") is named for him. Touraine-Solente-Gole syndrome is also named for him.A. Touraine, G. Solente, L. Golé, Un syndrome ostéodermopathique. La pachyderme plicaturée avec pachypériostose des extrémités. La presse médicale, Paris, 1935, 42: 1820-1824.
For eighteen years he was editor of the journal Annales de dermatologie et de syphiligraphie. In 1945 he was elected as a member of the Académie de médecine.Albert Touraine (1883-1961) Bibliothèque Nationale de France
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