Environmental dermatology: An overview

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-25

  Amer, Mohamed ^a,b   Metwalli, Mohamed ^a  

^a ZAGAZIG UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Gezeira Zamalek   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE RADICAL;

AIR POLLUTION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLIMATE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ECZEMA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; INFESTATION; MYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS VULGARIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SCLERODERMA; SKIN DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THERMAL INJURY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CAUSALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN DISEASES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0031867316     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0738-081X(97)00166-1     Document Type: Review

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