The spectrum of skin diseases in a black population in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 279-285

  Dlova, Ncoza C ^a   Mankahla, Avumile ^b   Madala, Nomandla ^a   Grobler, Anneke ^a   Tsoka Gwegweni, Joyce ^c   Hift, Richard J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRANSKEI   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACNE; ACNE VULGARIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALBINISM; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BLACK PERSON; CELLULITIS; CHILD; CHLOASMA; DARIER DISEASE; DERMATITIS; DRUG ERUPTION; ECZEMA; EPIDERMODYSPLASIA VERRUCIFORMIS; FEMALE; FOLLICULITIS; GRANULOMA ANNULARE; HAIR DISEASE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HIRSUTISM; HUMAN; HYPOPIGMENTATION; KELOID; LICHEN PLANUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NAIL DYSCHROMIA; NICKEL HYPERSENSITIVITY; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; OCHRONOSIS; PAPULAR URTICARIA; PELLAGRA; PITYRIASIS; PITYRIASIS ROSEA; PITYRIASIS RUBRA PILARIS; POSTINFLAMMATORY HYPERPIGMENTATION; PREVALENCE; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PRURIGO; PRURITUS; PSORIASIS; SARCOIDOSIS; SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN TUMOR; SOUTH AFRICA; SUNBURN; SUPPURATIVE HIDRADENITIS; SYRINGOMA; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TUBERCULID; VITILIGO; XEROSIS; ETHNOLOGY; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACNE VULGARIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECZEMA; FEMALE; HAIR DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; SKIN DISEASES; SKIN DISEASES, INFECTIOUS; SOUTH AFRICA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923271837     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: 13654632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ijd.12589     Document Type: Article

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