Ultrastructural Studies of Vitiligo, Vogt-Koyanagi Syndrome, and Incontinentia Pigmenti Achromians

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 1977, Pages 755-766

  Morohashi, Masaaki ^a   Hashimoto, Ken ^a   Goodman, Thomas F ^a   Newton, Dennis E ^a,b   Rist, Toivo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b NAVAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Maxwell Gunter AFB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASM; DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ETIOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; INCONTINENTIA PIGMENTI; ITO SYNDROME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOCYTE; MELANOSOME; NERVE ENDING; SCHWANN CELL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT; VITILIGO; VOGT KOYANAGI SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOCYTES; NERVE ENDINGS; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; SYNDROME; UVEITIS; UVEOMENINGOENCEPHALITIC SYNDROME; VACUOLES; VITILIGO;

EID: 0017649375     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.1977.01640060051004     Document Type: Article

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