CHILD syndrome in 3 generations: The importance of mild or minimal skin lesions

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 348-351

  Bittar, Mario ^a,b   Happle, Rudolf ^a   Grzeschik, Karl Heinz ^a   Leveleki, Leonora ^a   Hertl, Michael ^a   Bornholdt, Dorothea ^a   König, Arne ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CUYO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL HEMIDYSPLASIA WITH ICHTHYOSIFORM NEVUS AND LIMB DEFECTS; DNA DETERMINATION; DYSPLASIA; FEMALE; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MISSENSE MUTATION; PEDIGREE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT;

3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GENETIC DISEASES, X-LINKED; HUMANS; KERATOSIS; LIMB DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NAIL DISEASES; NEVUS; PEDIGREE; SKIN DISEASES, GENETIC; SYNDROME;

EID: 33645103857     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 0003987X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.142.3.348     Document Type: Article

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