Misnomers in dermatology

Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 284-288

  Barankin, Benjamin ^a   Freiman, Anatoli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ACANTHOSIS NIGRICANS; ALOPECIA; ANGIOSARCOMA; ANTHRAX; ANTICOAGULATION; BAZEX DUPRE CHRISTOL SYNDROME; CANDIDIASIS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DARIER DISEASE; DERMATITIS; DERMATOLOGY; ELECTRONICS; GLUTEAL GRANULOMA; GOLTZ SYNDROME; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOT COMB ALOPECIA; ICHTHYOSIS; IMPETIGO HERPETIFORMIS; KERATITIS; KERATODERMATOUS ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIA; LYMPHANGIOSARCOMA; MEDLINE; MELANOMA; MYCOSIS; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; NOCARDIA; NOMENCLATURE; PEMPHIGOID GESTATIONIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBIC PEDICULOSIS; PYOGENIC GRANULOMA; REVIEW; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SCLERODERMA; SEBACEOUS CYST; SEBORRHEIC KERATOSIS; SKIN ABRASION; SKIN DISEASE; SUBUNGUAL MELANOMA; SUPPURATIVE HIDRADENITIS; SYNDROME KID; TINEA; TINEA CORPORIS; TINEA VERSICOLOR; TRICHOADENOMA; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; VERRUCOUS HEMANGIOMA; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

DERMATOLOGY; HUMANS; SKIN DISEASES; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 33749317574     PISSN: 12034754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10227-005-0102-7     Document Type: Review

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