Wegener's granulomatosis mimicking facial granulomatous rosacea: A separate subset?

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 548-549

  Dereure, Olivier ^a   Bessis, Didier ^a   Durand, Luc ^a   Guillot, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; BIGUANIDE DERIVATIVE; CLAVULANIC ACID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; LEVOTHYROXINE; METRONIDAZOLE; STEROID;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHEEK; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG ERUPTION; ENDOSCOPY; EPISTAXIS; EYE; FACE; FEMALE; GRANULOMATOUS ROSACEA; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LETTER; NOSE; NOSE NECROSIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROSACEA; STEROID THERAPY; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS; XEROSTOMIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GRANULOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SKIN;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ROSACEA; SKIN; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 38849178943     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-0301     Document Type: Letter

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