Socioeconomic impact of atopic dermatitis

Atopic Dermatitis

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 67-80

  Lapidus, Candace S ^a   Kerr, Philip E ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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