Epidemiology of dandruff, scalp pruritus and associated symptoms

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 80-81

  Misery, Laurent ^a,b   Rahhali, Nora ^c   Duhamel, Antoine ^d   Taieb, Charles ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^b BREST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c Centre d'Immunologie Pierre Fabre   (France)

^d Ducray Laboratories   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DANDRUFF; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SCALP PRURITUS; SKIN PAIN; SKIN TIGHTNESS; SKIN TINGLING; SOCIOECONOMICS; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARESTHESIA; PREVALENCE; PRURITUS; SCALP DERMATOSES; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84871700475     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: 16512057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-1315     Document Type: Letter

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