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ISRN Dermatology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 163929, 3 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/163929
Research Article
Treatment of Plane Warts with a Low-Dose Oral Isotretinoin
1Department of Dermatology and Venereology, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Medical Collection Office, P.O. Box 61211, Baghdad 12114, Iraq
2Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Baghdad Teaching Hospital, Medical City, Baghdad, Iraq
Received 22 September 2012; Accepted 21 November 2012
Academic Editors: A. Ingber and A. Zalewska
Copyright © 2012 Hayder R. Al-Hamamy et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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