Mercury "bleaching" creams [13]

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1113-1114

  Engler, Danielle E ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETAMETHASONE DIPROPIONATE; BLEACHING AGENT; MELANIN; MERCURY;

ACRODYNIA; AMNESIA; ANXIETY; BREAST MILK; CONTACT DERMATITIS; DEPRESSION; ERYTHRODERMA; FETUS DISEASE; FLUSHING; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPERSALIVATION; IMPETIGO; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TUBULE ACIDOSIS; LETTER; LOUSE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PEDICULOSIS; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; PSYCHOSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; PURPURA; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SKIN TOXICITY; STOMATITIS; SYPHILIS; TREMOR;

COSMETICS; HUMANS; MERCURY; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 19544368288     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2005.01.136     Document Type: Letter

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