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Post-Irradiation Morphea: Case report and review of the literature

Ammar Alhathlool1, Rüdiger Hein, Christian Andres

  • 1Department of Dermatology and Allergy Biederstein, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany.

Journal of Dermatological Case Reports
|October 24, 2012
PubMed
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Keywords:
adverse eventmorphearadiationscleroderma

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