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Dermoscopy Aids in the Diagnosis of Discoid Lupus Erythematosus
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Image and diagnosis. Cutaneous larva migrans (CLM)
E W Williams1, J F Lindo, S French
1Emergency Medicine Division, Department of Surgery, The University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica, West Indies. verz3us@yahoo.com
The West Indian Medical Journal
|November 8, 2006
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