Multiple Habit-Induced Nail Problems Including Diffuse Brownish Chromonychia
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Vol. 26, No. 6, 2014 793 Received November 14, 2013, Revised June 26, 2014, Accepted for publication July 30, 2014 Corresponding author: Hyun Jeong Park, Department of Dermatology, Yeouido St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 10 63-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul 150-713, Korea. Tel: 82-2-3779-1391, Fax: 82-2-783-7604, E-mail: hjpark@ catholic.ac.kr 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.2014.26.6.793
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