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Melissa Norton, MD

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Jigisha Patel, MRCP PhD

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Timothy I. Shipley


Welcome to BMC Dermatology published by BioMed Central
BMC Dermatology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis and management of skin disorders, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology, and epidemiology. BMC Dermatology (ISSN 1471-5945) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, CAS, EMBASE, Scopus and Google Scholar.



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BMC Dermatology 2009, 9:11
Dermatologists recommend treatment for alopecia less often for children than adults, and fewer recommend treatment as disease severity increases, suggesting consistency of treatment needs to be much improved for this condition.
Clarke et al.
BMC Dermatology 2009, 9:8
Keloids show apparent autosomal dominant inheritance amongst families of African and South Asian ancestry, with differences in their physical location, although additional study of affected families is required to confirm these observations.


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A new two-phase dimeticone pediculicide shows high efficacy in a comparative bioassay
Jorg Heukelbach, Andre Asenov, Oliver Liesenfeld, Ali Mirmohammadsadegh, Fabiola A Oliveira
BMC Dermatology 2009, 9:12 (14December2009)
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Attitudes of dermatologists in the southeastern United States regarding treatment of alopecia areata: a cross-sectional survey study
Niyati Mukherjee, Dean S Morrell, Madeleine Duvic, Paul W Stewart, Lowell A Goldsmith
BMC Dermatology 2009, 9:11 (12November2009)
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Description of familial keloids in five pedigrees: evidence for autosomal dominant inheritance and phenotypic heterogeneity
Jason A Clark, Maria L Turner, Lillian Howard, Horia Stanescu, Robert Kleta, Jeffrey B Kopp
BMC Dermatology 2009, 9:8 (28July2009)
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BMC Dermatology 2009, 9:5 (29May2009)
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TA Salami, SO Samuel, KC Eze, E Irekpita, E Oziegbe, MO Momoh
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