Insect bite-like reaction in patients with hematologic malignant neoplasms

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 135, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1503-1507

  Barzilai, Aviv ^a,b,c   Shpiro, Dorit ^a,c   Goldberg, Iris ^a,c   Yacob Hirsch, Yasmin ^a,c   Diaz Cascajo, Carlos ^d   Meytes, Dina ^b,c   Schiby, Regina ^a,c   Amariglio, Ninette ^a,c   Trau, Henri ^a,c  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d Center for Dermatopathology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE MONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMADROME; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA; MYELOFIBROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SKIN BIOPSY;

EID: 0032785838     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.135.12.1503     Document Type: Article

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