Tunga penetrans: Description of a new dermoscopic sign-the radial crown

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 348-349

  Marazza, Gionata ^a   Campanelli, Alexandre ^b   Kaya, Gúrkan ^b   Braun, Ralph P ^b   Saurat, Jean Hilaire ^b   Piguet, Vincent ^b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FLEA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NOTE; PARAKERATOSIS; PARASITIC SKIN DISEASE; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAND FLEA; TUNGIASIS;

AGED; ANIMALS; DERMOSCOPY; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; FLEAS; FOOT DERMATOSES; HUMANS;

EID: 62649116931     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2008.611     Document Type: Note

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