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Watermelon stomach and colon in a patient with diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis

Takashi MatsushitaDepartment of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan and Correspondence[email protected]
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Minoru HasegawaDepartment of Dermatology, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan
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Kazuhiko TakeharaDepartment of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan and
Pages 376-377 | Received 13 May 2016, Accepted 25 Jun 2016, Published online: 14 Jul 2016

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