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Yuki Nakagawa1, Takafumi Uchida2, Shin Morizane1

  • 1Department of Dermatology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan.

The Journal of Dermatology
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