Different modalities of spa therapy for skin diseases at the dead sea area

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 134, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1416-1420

  Halevy, Sima ^a   Sukenik, Shaul ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIPOTRIOL; CORTICOSTEROID; SALICYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; TAR;

ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BALNEOTHERAPY; CLIMATOTHERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; REMISSION; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SKIN DISEASE; SPA TREATMENT;

EID: 0031785242     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.134.11.1416     Document Type: Review

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