Pilomatricoma-Like Changes in the Epidermoid Cysts of Gardner Syndrome with an APC Gene Mutation
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Kazunori Urabe
Department of Dermatology, Norman Bethune College of Medical Sciences Jilin University, Changchun, China
Correspondence to: Kazunori Urabe, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Dermatology Graduate School of Medical Sciences Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, JapanSearch for more papers by this authorJianxin Xia
Department of Pathology, Norman Bethune College of Medical Sciences Jilin University, Changchun, China
Search for more papers by this authorTeiichi Masuda
Department of Dermatology, Norman Bethune College of Medical Sciences Jilin University, Changchun, China
Search for more papers by this authorYoichi Moroi
Department of Dermatology, Norman Bethune College of Medical Sciences Jilin University, Changchun, China
Search for more papers by this authorMasutaka Furue
Department of Dermatology, Norman Bethune College of Medical Sciences Jilin University, Changchun, China
Search for more papers by this authorTakayuki Matsumoto
Department of Endoscopic Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Graduate School of Medical Sciences Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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Kazunori Urabe
Department of Dermatology, Norman Bethune College of Medical Sciences Jilin University, Changchun, China
Correspondence to: Kazunori Urabe, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Dermatology Graduate School of Medical Sciences Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, JapanSearch for more papers by this authorJianxin Xia
Department of Pathology, Norman Bethune College of Medical Sciences Jilin University, Changchun, China
Search for more papers by this authorTeiichi Masuda
Department of Dermatology, Norman Bethune College of Medical Sciences Jilin University, Changchun, China
Search for more papers by this authorYoichi Moroi
Department of Dermatology, Norman Bethune College of Medical Sciences Jilin University, Changchun, China
Search for more papers by this authorMasutaka Furue
Department of Dermatology, Norman Bethune College of Medical Sciences Jilin University, Changchun, China
Search for more papers by this authorTakayuki Matsumoto
Department of Endoscopic Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Graduate School of Medical Sciences Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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