Progressive and extensive hypomelanosis and extensive pityriasis alba: Same disease, different names? [25]

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1363-1364

  Relyveld, G ^a   Menke, H ^a   Westerhof, W ^a  

^a Netherlands Institute for Pigment Disorders   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN; PORPHYRIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOPLASM; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMAN; HYPOMELANOSIS; HYPOPIGMENTATION; KERATINOCYTE; LETTER; MELANOCYTE; MELANOSOME; NETHERLANDS; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PITYRIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; WORKSHOP;

HUMANS; HYPOPIGMENTATION; PITYRIASIS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 33750306797     PISSN: 09269959     EISSN: 14683083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2006.01719.x     Document Type: Letter

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