Alopecia neoplastica due to metastatic colon adenocarcinoma [11]

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 93-94

  Gül, Ülker ^a   Kiliç, Arzu ^a   Akbaş, Ayşe ^b   Aslan, Erkan ^a   Demiriz, Murat ^c  

^a ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b ATATURK TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^c GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALOPECIA; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; COLON CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN METASTASIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ALOPECIA; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SCALP; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33846881159     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-0166     Document Type: Letter

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