Surgical management of stable vitiligo: A review with personal experience

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 248-254

  Mutalik, Sharad ^a,c   Ginzburg, Alex ^b  

^a Maharashtra Medical Foundation   (India)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c NONE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL TRANSPLANTATION; EXCISION; FULL THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; MELANOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN SURGERY; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; TATTOOING; TREATMENT INDICATION; VITILIGO;

CELLS, CULTURED; HUMANS; MELANOCYTES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TATTOOING; VITILIGO;

EID: 0034020910     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-4725.2000.09182.x     Document Type: Review

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