Epidemiology

Contact Dermatitis (Fifth Edition)

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 193-211

  Coenraads, Pieter Jan ^a   Uter, Wolfgang ^b   Diepgen, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 84875478379     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03827-3_11     Document Type: Chapter

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