An unusual variant of lichen nitidus [8]

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 100-102

  Rudd, M E ^a   Ha, T ^a   Schofield, O M V ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETAMETHASONE VALERATE; CLOBETASOL PROPIONATE; CLONAZEPAM; CORTICOSTEROID; DILTIAZEM; ETRETIN; FUROSEMIDE; MOMETASONE FUROATE; PHENYTOIN; SIMVASTATIN; TEMAZEPAM; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ADULT; CAPILLARITIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG EFFECT; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERKERATOSIS; LETTER; LICHENOID ERUPTION; PAPULE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POMPHOLYX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SKIN BIOPSY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINALYSIS;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; FEMALE; FOOT DERMATOSES; HAND DERMATOSES; HUMANS; LICHEN NITIDUS; MIDDLE AGED; STEROIDS;

EID: 0037272765     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2230.2003.01156_8.x     Document Type: Letter

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