Severe form of keratitis-ichthyosis-deafness (KID) syndrome associated with septic complications

Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 680-682

  Haruna, Kunitaka ^a,b   Suga, Yasushi ^a   Oizumi, Ami ^a   Mizuno, Yuki ^a   Endo, Hideharu ^c   Shimizu, Toshiaki ^b   Hasegawa, Toshio ^b   Ikeda, Shigaku ^b  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY URAYASU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Chiba Aoba Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE REPORT; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CORNEA ULCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERYTHRODERMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERKERATOSIS; INFANT; JAPANESE; KERATITIS; KERATITIS ICHTHYOSIS DEAFNESS SYNDROME; LETTER; PAPILLOMATOSIS; SEPSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CANDIDIASIS; COMPLICATION; FATALITY; GENETICS; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; ICHTHYOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; POINT MUTATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNDROME;

CONNEXIN 26; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CANDIDIASIS; CONNEXINS; DEAFNESS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; ICHTHYOSIS; INFANT; KERATITIS; POINT MUTATION; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNDROME;

EID: 77954236764     PISSN: 03852407     EISSN: 13468138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1346-8138.2010.00839.x     Document Type: Letter

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