Božidar Puretić

Božidar Puretić (1921 in Bjelovar – 1971 in Zagreb) was a Croatian physician. In 1962 he described a case of juvenile hyaline fibromatosis as a unique form of mesenchymal dysplasia. This very rare disease had been first described by Dr. John Murray in 1873 and termed molluscum fibrosum. No cases were subsequently reported and it had become almost forgotten before Puretić's case.