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Dermatology Research and Practice
Volume 2018, Article ID 5801280, 4 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/5801280
Review Article

Impetigo Herpetiformis: Review of Pathogenesis, Complication, and Treatment

Nastaran Namazi and Sahar Dadkhahfar

Skin Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Correspondence should be addressed to Sahar Dadkhahfar; moc.liamg@rafhahkdad.rahas

Received 20 January 2018; Accepted 5 March 2018; Published 4 April 2018

Academic Editor: E. Helen Kemp

Copyright © 2018 Nastaran Namazi and Sahar Dadkhahfar. 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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