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What is your diagnosis? The diagnosis: Eosinophilic fasciitis
Lana X Tong, Julie Jackson, Scott Binder
1Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 200 Medical Plaza, Ste 450, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. sworswick@mednet.ucla.edu.
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|August 6, 2015
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