Iatrogenic Harlequin Syndrome: A New Case
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Vol. 27, No. 1, 2015 101 Received February 4, 2014, Revised March 5, 2014, Accepted for publication March 12, 2014 Corresponding author: Mi Woo Lee, Department of Dermatology, Asan Medical Center, 88 Olympic-ro 43-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-736, Korea. Tel: 82-2-3010-3460, Fax: 82-2-486-7831, E-mail: miumiu@ amc.seoul.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. Fig. 1. She experienced flushing on the left side of her face following physical exercise. http://dx.doi.org/10.5021/ad.2015.27.1.101
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