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Response of intractable skin ulcers in recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa patients to an allogeneic cultured dermal substitute.
Acta dermato-venereologica - 1 Mar 2010
Natsuga Ken, Sawamura Daisuke, Goto Maki, Homma Erina, Goto-Ohguchi Yuka, Aoyagi Satoru, Akiyama Masashi, Kuroyanagi Yoshimitsu, Shimizu Hiroshi
Abstract excerpt
Recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB) is an inherited skin disorder caused by mutations in the COL7A1 gene, which encodes collagen VII (COL7). Skin ulcers in RDEB patients are sometimes slow to heal. We describe here the therapeutic response of intractable skin ulcers in two patients...
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