Epidemiology of skin diseases in people of color

Cutis

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 271-275

  Taylor, Susan C ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACNE VULGARIS; ALOPECIA; ALOPECIA AREATA; BACTERIUM; CHLOASMA; CONTACT DERMATITIS; ECZEMA; FOLLICULITIS; FUNGUS; HUMAN; KELOID; NEURODERMATITIS; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT DISORDER; PITYRIASIS ROSEA; REVIEW; SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS; SKIN COLOR; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN INFECTION; TINEA VERSICOLOR; URTICARIA; VERRUCA VULGARIS; VIRUS; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HISPANIC; NEGRO; RACE;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 0038673697     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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