Intermittent cutaneous tumefaction after a trip to Vietnam;Tuméfaction cutanée intermittente au retour du Vietnam

Annales de Dermatologie et de Venereologie

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 463-464

  Kunzle, N ^a   Laffitte, E ^a   De Heller, H K ^b   Landry, P ^b   Panizzon, R G ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b POLICLINIQUE MÉDICALE UNIVERSITAIRE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EYELID EDEMA; FEMALE; GNATHOSTOMA SPINIGERUM; HUMAN; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; SKIN EDEMA; TRAVEL; VIET NAM;

ADULT; ANIMALS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EOSINOPHILIA; EYELID DISEASES; FEMALE; GNATHOSTOMA; HUMANS; LARVA MIGRANS; SKIN DISEASES, PARASITIC; SPIRURIDA INFECTIONS; SWITZERLAND; TRAVEL; VIETNAM;

EID: 0038715634     PISSN: 01519638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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