Cutaneous signs of systemic disease

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 511-522

  Patel, Laju M ^a   Lambert, Phelps J ^b   Gagna, Claude E ^a,c   Maghari, Amin ^a   Lambert, W Clark ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b St George's University School of Medicine   (United States)

^c NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACANTHOSIS NIGRICANS; ACUTE STRESS; ADDISON DISEASE; ARSENIC POISONING; ARTICLE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLLAGEN DISEASE; CUSHING DISEASE; DARIER DISEASE; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPERTENSION; INTESTINE CANCER; LEUKOCYTOCLASTIC VASCULITIS; LIVER DISEASE; MALIGNANT LENTIGO; MASTOCYTOSIS; MEASLES; MUIR TORRE SYNDROME; NAIL DISEASE; NOMENCLATURE; PAPULE; PEMPHIGUS; PEUTZ JEGHERS SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; RENDU OSLER WEBER DISEASE; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SCAR; SCARLET FEVER; SKIN DISEASE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STOMACH CANCER; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; UREMIA; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ACANTHOSIS NIGRICANS; ADDISON DISEASE; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CUSHING SYNDROME; ERYTHEMA INDURATUM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HISTIOCYTOMA, BENIGN FIBROUS; HUMANS; HYPOTRICHOSIS; MELANOMA; MUIR-TORRE SYNDROME; NEOPLASMS, SQUAMOUS CELL; NEVUS, BLUE; SKIN DISEASES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80051757965     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: 18791131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2011.01.019     Document Type: Article

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