The immunocompromised district in dermatology: A unifying pathogenic view of the regional immune dysregulation

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 569-576

  Ruocco, Vincenzo ^a   Ruocco, Eleonora ^a   Piccolo, Vincenzo ^a   Brunetti, Giampiero ^a   Guerrera, Luigi Pio ^a   Wolf, Ronni ^b,c  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEVIRAPINE; RITONAVIR; SAQUINAVIR;

BURN; DERMATOLOGY; DERMATOME; DISCOID LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED DISTRICT; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IONIZING RADIATION; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LYMPHEDEMA; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM; MORPHEA; MOSAICISM; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CANCER; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; IMMUNOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SKIN; SKIN DISEASE;

DERMATOLOGY; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 84906350929     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: 18791131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2014.04.004     Document Type: Note

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