Therapy-resistant, spontaneously remitting generalized neutrophilic eccrine hidradenitis in a healthy patient decreases the expression of dermcidin in affected eccrine glands

Case Reports in Dermatology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 228-234

  Kambayashi, Yumi ^a   Fujimura, Taku ^a   Yamasaki, Kenshi ^a   Aiba, Setsuya ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dermcidin; Eccrine glands; Neutrophilic eccrine hidradenitis

Indexed keywords

DERMCIDIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ERYTHEMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUTROPHILIC ECCRINE HIDRADENITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PRURITUS; SWEAT GLAND; SWEAT GLAND DISEASE;

EID: 84855277580     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16626567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000334737     Document Type: Article

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