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  1. Department of Dermatology, 161 Fort Washington Avenue, IP 12th floor, New York, NY, 10032, USA

    Maurice J Dahdah & Richard K Scher

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  1. Universitätsklinikum Köln Klinik und Poliklinik für Dermatologie und Venerologie, Kerpener Str. 62, Köln, 50924, Germany

    Thomas Krieg

  2. Dept. Dermatology, Columbia University Medical Center, 12th Floor, Herbert Irving Pavilion 161 Fort Washington Ave, New York, NY, 10032, USA

    David R. Bickers

  3. Dept. Dermatology & Cutaneous Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, 54 Kawahara-cho Shogoin, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan

    Yoshiki Miyachi

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Dahdah, M.J., Scher, R.K. (2010). Nail Diseases. In: Krieg, T., Bickers, D.R., Miyachi, Y. (eds) Therapy of Skin Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78814-0_45

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