Water loss through the lip, nail, eyelid skin, scalp skin and axillary skin measured with a closed-chamber evaporation principle [13]

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 839-841

  Nuutinen, Jouni ^a,c   Harvima, I ^b   Lahtinen, M R ^b   Lahtinen, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c Delfin Technologies Ltd   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AXILLA; DEVICE; ECZEMA; EVAPORATION; EYELID; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LETTER; LIP; MALE; NAIL; NORMAL HUMAN; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; SCALP; SKIN; WATER LOSS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DERMATOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAILS; SCALP; VOLATILIZATION; WATER LOSS, INSENSIBLE;

EID: 0037902497     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2133.2003.05257.x     Document Type: Letter

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