Lichen Myxedematosus (Papular Mucinosis): New Concepts and Perspectives for an Old Disease

Seminars in Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 100-104

  Rongioletti, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

lichen myxedematosus; mucin; papular mucinosis; scleromyxedema

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; CHLORAMBUCIL; CLADRIBINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; DEXAMETHASONE; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HYALURONIC ACID; HYALURONIDASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; ISOTRETINOIN; MELPHALAN; METHOTREXATE; PIMECROLIMUS; PSORALEN; RETINOID; THALIDOMIDE; TRYPTOPHAN;

AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BLOOD TOXICITY; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONVULSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISABILITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTRON THERAPY; EOSINOPHILIA MYALGIA SYNDROME; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; HAND; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LETHALITY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYOSITIS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PSYCHOSIS; PUVA; REVIEW; SCLEROMYXEDEMA; SEPSIS; SYMPTOM; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TOXIC OIL SYNDROME; WRIST;

HUMANS; SCLEROMYXEDEMA;

EID: 33746916420     PISSN: 10855629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sder.2006.04.001     Document Type: Review

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