Grave's Disease presenting as localized myxedema in a thigh donor graft site

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 39, Issue 5 II SUPPL., 1998, Pages 846-849

  Missner, S C ^a   Ramsay, E W ^a   Houck, H E ^a   Kauffman, C L ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DONOR SITE; ERYTHEMA; EXOPHTHALMOS; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MYXEDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; SKIN GRAFT; THIGH; AMPUTATION; FOLLOW UP; LEG ULCER; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY;

AMPUTATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; LEG DERMATOSES; LEG ULCER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYXEDEMA; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; THIGH; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0032209576     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0190-9622(98)70363-9     Document Type: Article

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