Familial peeling skin syndrome with eosinophilia: Clinical, histologic, and ultrastructural study of three cases

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 120, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 662-665

  Janin, Anne ^a   Copin, Marie Christine ^a   Dubos, Jean Pierre ^a   Rouland, Véronique ^a   Delaporte, Emmanuel ^a   Blanchet Bardon, Claudine ^b  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLISTER; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ICHTHYOSIS; MALE; NEWBORN; PROGNOSIS; SYNDROME;

BIOPSY; CONSANGUINITY; CYTOPLASM; EOSINOPHILIA; EOSINOPHILS; ERYTHEMA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; ICHTHYOSIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PEDIGREE; SKIN;

EID: 0030054727     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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