Benign familial Degos disease worsening during immunosuppression

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 524-527

  Powell, J ^a   Bordea, C ^a   Wojnarowska, F ^a   Farrell, A M ^a   Morris, P J ^a,b  

^a OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benign course; Degos disease; Familial occurrence; Immunosuppression; Renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALIGNANT ATROPHIC PAPULOSIS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN DISEASES, PAPULOSQUAMOUS; SYNDROME;

EID: 0032866553     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2133.1999.03050.x     Document Type: Article

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