Seemingly healthy skin in atopic dermatitis: Observations with the use of high-frequency ultrasonography, preliminary study

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 162-167

  Dańczak Pazdrowska, Aleksandra ^a   Polańska, Adriana ^a   Silny, Wojciech ^a   Sadowska, Anna ^a   Osmola Mańkowska, Agnieszka ^a   Czarnecka Operacz, Magdalena ^a   Zaba, Ryszard ^a   Jenerowicz, Dorota ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Atopic dermatitis; High frequency skin ultrasonography; Nonlesional skin in AD; Seemingly healthy skin in AD

Indexed keywords

ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BARRIER FUNCTIONS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; EPIDERMAL BARRIER; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASONOGRAPHY; NONLESIONAL SKIN IN AD; SEEMINGLY HEALTHY SKIN IN AD; SKIN DISORDERS; SKIN LESION; SKIN REACTION; SKIN SONOGRAPHY; TOPICAL TREATMENTS;

DERMATOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT;

ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PSORIASIS; SKIN DEFECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; ECZEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PSORIASIS; REFERENCE VALUES; SKIN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859441282     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: 16000846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2011.00548.x     Document Type: Article

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