Cutaneous diseases in Asians

Dermatologic Clinics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 669-677

  Lee, Chai Sue ^a   Lim, Henry W ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 ASCROBIC 2 PHOSPHATE; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ARBUTIN; ARTEMISIA VULGARIS EXTRACT; ASCORBIC ACID; AZELAIC ACID; AZULENE; CALCIPOTRIOL; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; FLUFENAMATE ALUMINUM; GLYCYRRHIZA EXTRACT; HEPARINOID; HYDROQUINONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; KOJIC ACID; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; RETINOIC ACID; RETINOID; RETINOL; TACROLIMUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACNE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; AMYLOIDOSIS; ASIAN; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; AWARENESS; BURNING SENSATION; CHLOASMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG FORMULATION; DYSHIDROSIS; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; KIKUCHI DISEASE; LIPODYSTROPHIA CENTRIFUGALIS ABDOMINALIS INFANTILIS; LIPODYSTROPHY; MELANOMA; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; NEVUS; NEVUS OF ITO; NUMMULAR DERMATITIS; OCHRONOSIS; OTA NEVUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PSORIASIS; PUVA; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN CANCER; SKIN DISEASE; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; XEROSIS;

EID: 0347625638     PISSN: 07338635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0733-8635(03)00078-0     Document Type: Review

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