Oral and genital ulceration: A unique presentation of immunodeficiency in Athabascan-speaking American Indian children with severe combined immunodeficiency

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 135, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 927-931

  Kwong, Pearl C ^a,c   O'Marcaigh, Aengus S ^b   Howard, Reneé ^a   Cowan, Morton J ^b   Frieden, Ilona J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CELL COUNT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENITAL ULCER; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; MOUTH ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE;

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; ORAL ULCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; ULCER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032782695     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.135.8.927     Document Type: Article

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