Low-dose tretinoin does not improve striae distensae: a double-blind, placebo-controlled study

S Pribanich1, F G Simpson, B Held

  • 1Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157.

Cutis
|August 1, 1994
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