Necrolytic acral erythema: A patient from the United States successfully treated with oral zinc

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 85-87

  Abdallah, Mahmoud A ^a   Hull, Cheryl ^b   Horn, Thomas D ^b,c  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; ZINC SULFATE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG POTENCY; ELBOW; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEG; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; NECROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; SKIN BIOPSY;

ACRODERMATITIS; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; REMISSION INDUCTION; ZINC SULFATE;

EID: 12444304238     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.141.1.85     Document Type: Article

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