Rowell's syndrome revisited: Report of two cases from India

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 545-549

  Khandpur, Sujay ^a,b   Das, Suchibrata ^a   Singh, Manoj K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PREDNISOLONE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATROPHIC SKIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; COLLAGEN DEGRADATION; DISCOID LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EXOCYTOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; RASH; ROWELL SYNDROME; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN NECROSIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, DISCOID;

EID: 21844472970     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2004.01995.x     Document Type: Article

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