Necrolytic Migratory Erythema: Distinctive Dermatosis of the Glucagonoma Syndrome

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 1977, Pages 792-797

  Kahan, Ronald S ^a   Perez Figaredo, Rafael A ^a   Neimanis, Andris ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; GRISEOFULVIN; HYDROXYUREA; METHOTREXATE; OXACILLIN; PREDNISONE; STREPTOKINASE; STREPTOZOCIN; TAR; TOLNAFTATE; TRIAMCINOLONE; TUBERCULIN; VINCRISTINE;

ACRODERMATITIS ENTEROPATHICA; CANDIDIASIS; DERMADROME; DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG THERAPY; ERYTHEMA; GLUCAGONOMA; INSULINOMA; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUMPS ANTIGEN; NECROLYTIC MIGRATORY ERYTHEMA; PANCREAS ISLET CELL TUMOR; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PEMPHIGUS FOLIACEUS; SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS; THERAPY;

ADENOMA, ISLET CELL; ADULT; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; GLUCAGON; HUMAN; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; SKIN DISEASES; SYNDROME;

EID: 0017704603     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.1977.01640060088011     Document Type: Article

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