Mee's Lines in a Patient with Multiple Parasitic Infections

Cutis

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 321-323

  Hepburn, Matthew J ^a   English III, Joseph C ^b   Meffert, Jeffrey J ^b  

^a BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Dermatology ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIAMEBIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSENTERY; FECES; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; NAIL; NAIL DISEASE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AMEBICIDES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSENTERY, AMEBIC; FECES; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; NAIL DISEASES; NAILS;

EID: 0031156609     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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