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Chapter 5 - Intraepidermal Vesiculobullous Dermatitis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2017

Asok Biswas
Asok Biswas
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Pearls and Pitfalls in Inflammatory Dermatopathology , pp. 98 - 129
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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