Epidemiology of epidermolysis bullosa in the antipodes: The Australasian epidermolysis bullosa registry with a focus on Herlitz junctional epidermolysis bullosa

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 146, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 635-640

  Kho, Yong Chern ^a   Rhodes, Lesley M ^a   Robertson, Susan J ^c   Su, John ^c   Varigos, George ^c   Robertson, Ian ^d   Hogan, Peter ^b   Orchard, David ^c   Murrell, Dedee F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^c MATER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CASE FINDING; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA DYSTROPHICA; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEPSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALASIA; BIOPSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA, JUNCTIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952508673     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2010.109     Document Type: Article

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