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Fernanda de Paula1, Tathyane Harumi Nakajima Teshima2, Ricardo Hsieh2

  • 1Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Anatomical Record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007)
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