How accurate is a clinical diagnosis of erythema chronicum migrans? Prospective study comparing the diagnostic accuracy of general practitioners and dermatologists in an area where lyme borreliosis is endemic [4]

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 620-621

  Lipsker, Dan ^a   Lieber Mbomeyo, Agnès ^b   Hedelin, Guy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG ERUPTION; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; LETTER; LYME DISEASE; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; NECROBIOSIS LIPOIDICA; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; TICK BITE; TINEA;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DERMATOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FRANCE; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TINEA;

EID: 2442701729     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.140.5.620     Document Type: Letter

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