Francisco Eduardo Accioli Rabello, Brazilian dermatologist (Rio de Janeiro 31 December 1905 - 25 January 1989)
Authored about 200 scientific works
Enunciated the polarity concept in various clinical forms of leprosy
A clinico-epidemiological classification of the forms of leprosy. Int. J. Leprol. 5:343-56, 1937
Classified leprosy in four types: virchowian, tuberculoid, dimorphous and undetermined (1938)
Created a conceptual system of dermatological nomenclature
Described the late reaction of Montenegro test
Pointed out new allergy aspects of the lympho-granulomatosis disease
Claimed attention for the first time to the possibility of cross reactions between Koch and Hansen’s antigens-antibodies
Eponym of Rabello colliquative neuritis and Rabello impetiginoid lesions in cutaneous leishmaniasis
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
Coccidioidina como tratamento de blastomicose. An. Bras. Derm. Sifililogr. 9:34, 1934
Donnees nouvelles pour l’interpretation de l’affection de Besnier-Boeck: role de la lepre. Ann. Dermatol. Syphil 7:571, 1936
A framboesia tropica e o problema das suas manifestações tardias. An. Bras. Derm. Sifililogr 13:17, 1938
A lepra incaracterística na experiência do Sanatório Padre Bento. Rev. Bras. Leprol. 11(2):115-32, 1943
With H. Portugal & R.D. Azulay. As buloses do grupo do pênfigo, suas correlações clínicas, funcionais e histológicas. An. Bras. Derm. Sifililogr 24:1, 1949
With R.D. Azulay, A.G. Antunes & J.A. Villela-Pedras. Eritrodermias exfoliativas. An. Bras. Derm. Sifilogr. 28(3):153-74, 1953
Conceituação clinico-biologica das eczematizações. An. Bras. Derm. Sifililogr. 29(1):33-45, 1954
With M. Rutowitsch & C.M. de Medeiros. Pruritic skin diseases. An. Bras. Derm. Sifililogr. 29(4):251-61, 1954
The group B under clinical viewpoint. Arqu. Min. Leprol. 20:412, 1960
With G.A. Quintaes & A. Barcaui. A case with characteristics of lichen sclerosus et atrophicus and a nevoid atrophy in patches, and with possibility of an incomplete form of scleroderma. Anais Bras. Dermatol. 41(4):290-1, 1966
With S. Fraga & C.M. de Medeiros. Chronic cicatricial bullosis. Anais Bras. Dermatol 45(1):31-6, 1970
Clinico-biological concepts of atopic status. Anais Bras. Dermatol. 46(1):35-52, 1971
Dissociated response to rheumatoid factor in lepromatous hanseniasis. JAMA 226 (10):1228, 1973
Amiloidose cutânea genuína (1955-1980). Anais Bras. Dermatol. 56(3):175-7, 1981
Síndrome complexa, familial, multicêntrica, atingindo pele, endocárdio, formações endócrinas e neuroendócrinas, mixomas. Anais Bras. Dermatol. 62(1):5-7, 1987
With V. Boas & H. Portugal. Considerações em torno de um caso de coccidioia com estrutura sarcóide. An. Bras. Dermatol.
HONOURS
Counselor, International Leprosy Association
Expert, International Center of Leprology
Chairman, Dermatological Nomenclature Committe of International Congresses of Stockholm (1957) & Washington (1962)
His father, Eduardo Rabello, Brazilian dermatologist (Barra Mansa, Rio de Janeiro State 22 September 1876 – Rio de Janeiro 08 August 1940)
Identified the nature of leishmaniotic lesions of the mucosa (1909)
Authored a classification of the clinical forms of cutaneous leishmaniasis
With J. Aguiar Pupo identified lepromatous and tuberculoid-polar types of leprosy
First to call attention to a number of frequent forms of tuberculoid leprosy (1923)
Described clinical aspects of the blastomycosis and distinguished it bteween the cutaneous and generalized forms
Pointed out the existing differences between Brazilian and European ringworm epidemiology
Demonstrated the possibility of microsporic ungual lesions (1907) later confirmed
Developed techniques for dermatological radiotherapy