Supernumerary nipples: An overview

Cutis

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 344-346

  Brown, Justin ^a   Schwartz, Robert A ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; POLYTHELIA; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL SKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; NIPPLE; PATHOLOGY;

ABNORMALITIES; HUMANS; NIPPLES; SKIN ABNORMALITIES;

EID: 0041914338     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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