Granuloma annulare masquerading as molluscum contagiosum-like eruption in an HIV-positive African woman

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 49, Issue 2 B, 2003, Pages 184-186

  Kapembwa, Moses S ^a,b   Goolamali, Saleem K ^a   Price, Ashley ^a   Boyle, Susan ^a  

^a Northwick Pk/St Marks Hosp Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; COLLAGEN; ZALCITABINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; GRANULOMA ANNULARE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOASSAY; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NECROBIOTIC DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RASH; STRONGYLOIDES; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0041632298     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mjd.2003.317     Document Type: Article

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