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Psoriasis: a T-cell-mediated-disease?

✍ Scribed by Thomas Höhler; Elisabeth Hermann; Karl-Hermann Meyer zum Bueschenfelde

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
95 KB
Volume
17
Category
Article
ISSN
0167-5699

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