Letter to the Editor
Case of bullous impetigo with enormous bulla developing into staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
Soo Hyeon Bae,
Soo Hyeon Bae
Department of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea
Search for more papers by this author Jee-Bum Lee,
Jee-Bum Lee
Department of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea
Search for more papers by this author Seong-Jin Kim,
Seong-Jin Kim
Department of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea
Search for more papers by this author Seung-Chul Lee,
Seung-Chul Lee
Department of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea
Search for more papers by this author Young Ho Won,
Young Ho Won
Department of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea
Search for more papers by this author Sook Jung Yun,
Corresponding Author
Sook Jung Yun
Department of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea
Correspondence: Sook Jung Yun, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, 160 Baekseo-ro, Dong-gu, Gwangju 501-746, Korea. Email:
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Soo Hyeon Bae,
Soo Hyeon Bae
Department of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea
Search for more papers by this author Jee-Bum Lee,
Jee-Bum Lee
Department of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea
Search for more papers by this author Seong-Jin Kim,
Seong-Jin Kim
Department of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea
Search for more papers by this author Seung-Chul Lee,
Seung-Chul Lee
Department of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea
Search for more papers by this author Young Ho Won,
Young Ho Won
Department of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea
Search for more papers by this author Sook Jung Yun,
Corresponding Author
Sook Jung Yun
Department of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea
Correspondence: Sook Jung Yun, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Medical School, 160 Baekseo-ro, Dong-gu, Gwangju 501-746, Korea. Email:
[email protected]Search for more papers by this author
First published: 25 November 2015
No abstract is available for this article.
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