Effective treatment of recalcitrant Hailey-Hailey disease with electron beam radiotherapy [24]

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 567-568

  Narbutt, Joanna ^a   Lesiak, A ^a   Arkuszewska, C ^a   Rychter, A ^a   Fijuth, J ^a   Sysa Jedrzejowska, A ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; DAPSONE; ETRETINATE; STEROID; VITAMIN D DERIVATIVE;

ACANTHOLYSIS; ADULT; AXILLA; BLISTER; CASE REPORT; ELECTRON THERAPY; HAILEY HAILEY DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPIGMENTATION; INGUINAL REGION; LETTER; MALE; NECK; OUTPATIENT; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SCROTUM; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT;

AXILLA; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERPIGMENTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEMPHIGUS, BENIGN FAMILIAL; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947417131     PISSN: 09269959     EISSN: 14683083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2006.01965.x     Document Type: Letter

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