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Generalized Pruritic Reddish-Brown Patches in a 7-Year-Old Boy

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    Doreen Kowatzki, Joachim W. Fluhr, Peter Elsner &  Mirjana Ziemer

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Kowatzki, D., Fluhr, J.W., Elsner, P. et al. Generalized Pruritic Reddish-Brown Patches in a 7-Year-Old Boy. AM J Clin Dermatol 8, 321–323 (2007). https://doi.org/10.2165/00128071-200708050-00009

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