Pigmented skin lesions in tyrosinase-positive oculocutaneous albinos: A study in black South Africans

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 831-836

  Bothwell, Janet E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND MEDICAL SCHOOL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 15Q; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATOSIS PALMOPLANTARIS; LENTIGO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; OCULAR ALBINISM; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SOUTH AFRICA; SUN EXPOSURE;

EID: 0030853156     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-4362.1997.00259.x     Document Type: Article

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