Skin diseases in rural Yucatan, Mexico

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 823-828

  Paek, So Yeon ^a   Koriakos, Angie ^b   Saxton Daniels, Stephanie ^a   Pandya, Amit G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACNE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CHILD; CHLOASMA; CONSULTATION; DARIER DISEASE; DERMATITIS; DERMATOPHYTOSIS; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; ECZEMA; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHEMATOSQUAMOUS SKIN DISEASE; FEMALE; FIBROMA; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; INFANT; INSECT BITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEXICO; NEURODERMATITIS; NEVUS; NUMMULAR DERMATITIS; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; PARASITIC SKIN DISEASE; PHOTODERMATOSIS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY DISORDER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PSORIASIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; SCABIES; SCHOOL CHILD; SEBORRHEIC KERATOSIS; SKIN APPENDAGE DISEASE; SKIN CARCINOMA; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN EXAMINATION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SYRINGOMA; URTICARIA; VERRUCA VULGARIS; VIRAL SKIN DISEASE; VITILIGO; XEROSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862646264     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: 13654632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2011.05190.x     Document Type: Article

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