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Letter to the Editor

Toxic epidermal necrolysis versus cutaneous Graft-Versus-Host Disease in a hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipient: the role of elafin

Alessandra ChenDavid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Correspondence[email protected]
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Kevin ChaoDavid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-8457-2318
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Lina RodriguezDepartment of Medicine, Division of Dermatology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA;
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William MundayDepartment of Pathology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Scott WorswickDavid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA; ;Department of Medicine, Division of Dermatology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-2700-1041
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Pages 2261-2263 | Received 31 Oct 2017, Accepted 26 Dec 2017, Published online: 11 Jan 2018

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