Pigmentary demarcation lines over the face

Dermatology

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 85-86

  Malakar, Subrata ^a,b   Dhar, Sandipan ^a  

^a Duncan Gleneagles Clin/Res Ctr   (India)

^b p 158 CIT Scheme VI M   (India)

Author keywords

Pigmentary demarcation line; Trigeminal nerve

Indexed keywords

COSMETIC; DERMATOLOGICAL AGENT; TOPICAL AGENT;

CHLOASMA; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DRUG ERUPTION; EMBRYO AXIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; JAPAN; LETTER; MALE; MELANOCYTOSIS; ORBIT; PIGMENTED NEVUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUNLIGHT; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 0033950438     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000018330     Document Type: Letter

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