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A K Jaiswal1, H Nidhi, B Bhushan

  • 1Post-Graduate Department of Dermatology and STD, Command Hospital, Air Force, Bangalore - 560007, India.

Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology
|October 16, 2010
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