Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
Volume 64, Issue 5 , Pages 974-980 , May 2011

The immigration delay disease: Adermatoglyphia–inherited absence of epidermal ridges

Presented as a poster at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society of Investigative Dermatology in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on May 6-9, 2009.

  • Bettina Burger, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
    • Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Bettina Burger, PhD, Departments of Dermatology and Biomedicine, Lab 317, University Hospital Basel, Hebelstr. 20, 4031 Basel/Switzerland.
    • ,
  • Dana Fuchs, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Eli Sprecher, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Peter Itin, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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 Funding sources: None.

 Conflicts of interest: None declared.

PII: S0190-9622(09)01475-3

doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2009.11.013

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
Volume 64, Issue 5 , Pages 974-980 , May 2011

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