Immunological eruptions of ageing: reframing chronic pruritic rashes in older adults

M K Abel^{1

2}, S Jelousi^{1

2}, T Berger², J E Murase^{2

3}, D C Butler²

Affiliations

¹ University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA.
² Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
³ Department of Dermatology, Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group, Mountain View, CA, USA.

M K Abel et al. Br J Dermatol. 2021 Sep.

. 2021 Sep;185(3):638-639.

doi: 10.1111/bjd.20414. Epub 2021 Jul 5.

M K Abel^{1

2}, S Jelousi^{1

2}, T Berger², J E Murase^{2

3}, D C Butler²

¹ University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA.
² Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
³ Department of Dermatology, Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group, Mountain View, CA, USA.

No abstract available

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