Phlebolymphedema: Disregarded cause of immunocompromised district

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 541-543

  Ruocco, Eleonora ^a   Brunetti, Giampiero ^a   Brancaccio, Gabriella ^a   Lo Schiavo, Ada ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER LOCALIZATION; CELLULITIS; EDEMA; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED DISTRICT; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IMMUNOREGULATION; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; LYMPHEDEMA; MICROANGIOPATHY; NOTE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHLEBOLYMPHEDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN DEFECT; ULCER; VEIN DISEASE;

HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LYMPHEDEMA; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 84865291608     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: 18791131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2012.04.004     Document Type: Note

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