Podoconiosis: An experience from Tigray, Northern Ethiopia

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 214-215

  Morrone, Aldo ^a   Padovese, Valeska ^a   Dassoni, Federica ^a   Pajno, Maria Chiara ^a   Marrone, Rosalia ^a   Franco, Gennaro ^a   Calcaterra, Roberta ^a   Manni, Lorenzo ^b   Barnabas, Gebre Ab ^c   Maiani, Elisa ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b Geologist Rome   (Italy)

^c Tigray Health Bureau   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; EMOLLIENT AGENT;

ETHIOPIA; HUMAN; HYPERKERATOSIS; LETTER; PAPILLOMA; PODOCONIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN IRRITATION; SKIN NODULE;

EID: 79958844991     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: 10976787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2010.08.018     Document Type: Article

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