Panniculitis: Clinical overlap and the significance of biopsy findings

Journal of Cutaneous Pathology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 49-58

  Chopra, Rajan ^a   Chhabra, Seema ^b   Thami, Gurvinder Pal ^b   Punia, Raj Pal Singh ^b  

^a KING FAHAD HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^b GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACNE CONGLOBATA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM LEPROSUM; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTOCLASTIC VASCULITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS NECROSIS; PANNICULITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN BIOPSY; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SUPERFICIAL THROMBOPHLEBITIS;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANNICULITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71049165113     PISSN: 03036987     EISSN: 16000560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0560.2009.01404.x     Document Type: Article

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