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Progressive macular hypomelanosis Guillet-Hélénon: structural and immunohistochemical findings.
of HHV-6 DNA in the myocardium, in the absence of other pathogens, suggests that the myocarditis was caused by the virus. Moreover, we suggest that the identification of the viral genome is favourable to a pathogenic relationship between the virus and the cardiac anomaly. In our case, there are pathological findings of acute, subacute and chronic myocarditis compatible with viral persistence. T...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pigment International
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2349-5847
DOI: 10.4103/2349-5847.147040