Dermoscopy as a diagnostic tool in demodicidosis

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1018-1023

  Segal, Rina ^a   Mimouni, Daniel ^a   Feuerman, Hanna ^a   Pagovitz, Odelya ^a   David, Michael ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTACT DERMATITIS; DEMODEX; DEMODICOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DRUG ERUPTION; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FACE DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLICULITIS; GRANULOMATOUS SKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RASH; SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; DERMOSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITE INFESTATIONS; MITES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956158727     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: 13654632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2010.04495.x     Document Type: Article

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