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(¤ 9.7.1878, † 1952) Sutton was born on 9.7.1878 as son of a pastor in the state of Missouri/USA. He studied at the University of Missouri and graduated in 1901. Several educational trips to Europe (London, Paris, Hamburg, Berlin). 1912 Appointment as head of the Department of Dermatology at the "University of Kansas Medicial School". The name of Richard Lightburn Sutton is known in today's dermatology through the eponym "Sutton nevus", which is based on a publication entitled "leucoderma acquisitum centrifugum" from 1916. The first description of the major type of habitual aphthae also goes back to Sutton (1911).
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- Sutton RL (1911) Periadenitis mucosae necrotica recurrens.J Cutan Dis 29: 65-70
- Sutton RL (1916) An unusual variety of vitiligo (leucoderma acquisitum centrifugum). J Cutan Dis 34: 797-801
Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer