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Successful treatment of hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia using 595-nm pulsed dye laser

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  1. Department of Dermatology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Setatsukinowa, Otsu, Shiga, 520-2192, Japan

    Junko Nishikawa, Norikazu Fujii, Takeshi Kato, Toshihiro Tanaka & Noriki Fujimoto

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Nishikawa, J., Fujii, N., Kato, T. et al. Successful treatment of hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia using 595-nm pulsed dye laser. Eur J Dermatol 27, 674–675 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1684/ejd.2017.3144

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