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Pharmacotherapy of pompholyx

Uwe Wollina Academic Teaching Hospital Dresden Friedrichstadt, Department of Dermatology, Friedrichstrasse 41, 01067 Dresden, Germany. [email protected]
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Mohamed Badawy Abdel Naser Ain Shams University Hospital, Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Cairo, Egypt
Pages 1517-1522 | Published online: 25 Feb 2005

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