Vitiligo Coexistent with Striae: Association More than Coincidence?
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Vol. 26 No. 1, 2014 139 Received December 7, 2012, Revised February 5, 2013, Accepted for publication March 31, 2013 Corresponding author: Hong Sang, Department of Dermatology, Jinling Hospital, Southern Medical University (Guangzhou) School of Medicine, 305 E Zhongshan Road, Nanjing 210002, Jiangsu Province, China. Tel: 86-25-8086-0092, Fax: 86-25-8481-5775, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://dx.doi.org/10.5021/ad.2014.26.1.139
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