Solar lentigines are strongly related to sun exposure in contrast to ephelides

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 225-229

  Bastiaens, Maarten ^a   Hoefnagel, Juliette ^a   Westendorp, Rudi ^a   Vermeer, Bert Jan ^a   Bavinck, Jan Nico Bouwes ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ephelides; Epidemiology; Photodamage; Solar lentigines; Sun exposure

Indexed keywords

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELASTOSIS; EPHELIDE; FEMALE; HAIR COLOR; HOST; HUMAN; LENTIGINOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PHOTODERMATOSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PIGMENT DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SKIN; SKIN CANCER; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SKIN TYPE; SOLAR LENTIGINE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST; SUN EXPOSURE; SUNBURN;

ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; EPIDERMIS; FACE; FEMALE; HAIR COLOR; HUMANS; KERATOSIS; LENTIGO; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 2642530104     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.2004.00131.x     Document Type: Article

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