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Aquagenic wrinkling of the palms and cystic fibrosis: an Italian study with controls and genotype-phenotype correlations.
Dermatology (Basel, Switzerland) - 1 Jan 2014
Chinazzo C, De Alessandri A, Menoni S, Romanisio G, Rebora A, Rongioletti F
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AIMS: The primary aim was to determine the prevalence of aquagenic wrinkling of the palms (AWP) in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) compared to controls, and secondarily to evaluate genotype-phenotype correlations among CF subjects found to have AWP. METHODS: Fifty-eight patients with CF underwent a hand immersion test in tap water. Twenty-three of their CF carrier relatives and 7 subjects with a negative...
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