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Treatment

Combined therapy in vulvar lichen sclerosus: does topical tretinoin improve the efficacy of mometasone furoate?

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Pages 559-563 | Received 03 Nov 2016, Accepted 22 Dec 2016, Published online: 08 Jan 2017

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