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Ashton R, Fassihi H. Pediatric Autoimmune Bullous Disease: A Literature Review and Update on Management. Pediatr Rev 2022; 43:309-321. [PMID: 35641451 DOI: 10.1542/pir.2021-005125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Pediatric autoimmune bullous disease is a rare group of blistering skin disorders in children that result from autoimmunity against intercellular and basement membrane antigens in the skin and mucous membranes. Most pediatric cases are treated with oral corticosteroids or longer-term immunosuppressants such as azathioprine or mycophenolate mofetil. Immunomodulating drugs such as rituximab are increasingly being considered as options for refractory disease.
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- St John's Institute of Dermatology, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, England
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Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita (EBA) is an acquired autoimmune blistering skin disorder that is rare in adults and even rarer in childhood. This review aims to identify cases of pediatric EBA and report their clinical features and course. Our literature review was conducted in MEDLINE® using the search terms related to juvenile epidermolysis bullosa acquisita. We identified 40 cases of pediatric EBA. Mucosal tissues were affected in 29 out of 40 cases. Treatment mostly consisted of a systemic corticosteroid combined with dapsone. Prognosis is favorable with 17 of 40 cases achieving complete remission, 9 of 40 with complete control with therapy, 12 of 40 with partial control with therapy, 1 of 40 with no response to therapy, and 1 of 40 terminating treatment early. Though it is a rare condition, childhood EBA should still be included in the differential diagnosis of pediatric blistering diseases.
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- Emma Hignett
- University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, FL, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, FL, USA
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Marsden RA, Hill H, Mowat AG, Walshe M, Vanhegan RI, Ryan TJ. Penicillamine-induced Pemphigus. Proc R Soc Med 2016. [DOI: 10.1177/00359157770700s333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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- Nuffield Orthopädie Hospital, Headington Oxford
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Ingen-Housz-Oro S, Grootenboer-Mignot S, Ortonne N, Nahon S, Horvath J, Bernardeschi C, Laffitte E, André C, Chollet-Martin S, Wolkenstein P, Chosidow O. Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita-like eruption with anticollagen VII autoantibodies induced by D-penicillamine in Wilson disease. Br J Dermatol 2014; 171:1574-6. [PMID: 24888462 DOI: 10.1111/bjd.13153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- S Ingen-Housz-Oro
- Department of Dermatology, AP-HP, Henri Mondor Hospital, 51 avenue du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, 94000, Créteil, France
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Ishak R, Abbas O. Penicillamine revisited: historic overview and review of the clinical uses and cutaneous adverse effects. Am J Clin Dermatol 2013; 14:223-33. [PMID: 23605177 DOI: 10.1007/s40257-013-0022-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Penicillamine is a well-known heavy metal chelator, classically used in the treatment of Wilson disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and cystinuria. From a dermatologic standpoint, penicillamine was found to be useful in the treatment of systemic sclerosis. The successful therapeutic uses of penicillamine have been hindered by its numerous adverse effects, both cutaneous and extra-cutaneous. It is a unique drug since it provokes a diversity of dermatologic manifestations that include (1) acute hypersensitivity reactions, (2) dermopathies characterized by elastic fiber abnormalities including elastosis perforans serpiginosa and pseudo-pseudoxanthoma elasticum, (3) autoimmune disorders such as pemphigus and penicillamine-induced lupus erythematosus-like syndrome, and (4) miscellaneous dermatoses that result from undefined mechanisms. These cutaneous adverse effects may correlate with the dosage and duration of penicillamine therapy as well as the disease being treated.
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- Rim Ishak
- Department of Dermatology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Riad El Solh/Beirut, P.O. Box 11-0236, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon
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This case report of an 11-year-old girl describes a juvenile form of epidermolysis bullosa acquisita, an autoimmune disease of IgG antibodies to basement membrane type 7 collagen. Our case illustrates an unusually severe, acute inflammatory presentation of this condition with prominent mucosal and constitutional features requiring admission to a paediatric burns unit. The treatment consisted of supportive topical and systemic agents, prednisolone and dapsone. She responded to dapsone alone and the course of the illness was uneventful.
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- J C Su
- Department of Dermatology, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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Iozumi K, Nakagawa H, Tamaki K. Penicillamine-induced degenerative dermatoses: report of a case and brief review of such dermatoses. J Dermatol 1997; 24:458-65. [PMID: 9267106 DOI: 10.1111/j.1346-8138.1997.tb02820.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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We describe a case of elastosis perforans serpiginosa with additional findings of degenerative skin changes. A 20-year-old man with hepatolenticular degeneration, under prolonged treatment with D-penicillamine, presented with a circular or serpiginous arrangement of nuchal papules. Histopathologically, transepidermal channels were accompanied by granulomatous reactions, with several giant cells engulfing elastic fibers. In addition to these findings of a typical elastosis perforans serpiginosa, we observed scar-like skin changes inside the circular arrangement of the papules. At the scar-like tissue, we found electron-microscopical evidence of randomly aggregated thin collagen fibers with no tendency toward systemic combined bundle formation, which is a characteristic feature of normal collagen fiber formation. Pseudoxanthoma-elasticum-like changes were observed on his neck. On his axillae and groin, slight skin thickening and wrinkling were detected. The diagnosis of elastosis perforans serpiginosa does not represent all of the manifestations or the pathological background described above. The skin manifestations described here represent not only an elastosis but also a total degenerative dermatosis with overhealed collagenosis. Thus, those dermatoses should be summarized as one entity, penicillamine-induced degenerative dermatosis. After considering the pathogenic background and clinical similarities, we further propose to simplify the penicillamine-induced skin manifestations to three categories: acute sensitivity reactions, bullous dermatoses, and degenerative dermatoses.
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- K Iozumi
- Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan
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The successful therapeutic use of D-penicillamine (DPA) has been hindered by its many adverse effects. Autoimmune bullous syndromes are among the less common adverse DPA reactions; they are not dose dependent and appear late in the treatment of diseases of altered immunity, most often rheumatoid arthritis. The majority of the DPA-induced bullous syndromes belong to the pemphigus spectrum, usually pemphigus foliaceus or erythematosus, have a lower prevalence of demonstrable tissue-fixed or circulating antibodies than spontaneously occurring pemphigus, display abnormal direct immunofluorescent patterns, and have a generally favorable prognosis. However, many cases do exhibit a full-blown chronic disease, unaffected by DPA withdrawal. DPA-induced cicatricial pemphigoid is a severe disease of both mucous and cutaneous involvement with a prognosis similar to the spontaneous disease. Cases of DPA-induced epidermolysis bullosa acquisita and DPA-induced bullous pemphigoid were not sufficiently substantiated by immunofluorescence or immunoprecipitation criteria.
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- A Bialy-Golan
- Department of Dermatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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Van Joost T, Van't Veen AJ. Drug-induced cicatricial pemphigoid and acquired epidermolysis bullosa. Clin Dermatol 1993; 11:521-7. [PMID: 8124642 DOI: 10.1016/0738-081x(93)90160-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- T Van Joost
- Department of Dermato-Venereology, Erasmus University Rotterdam/Academic Hospital, Rotterdam-Dijkzigt, The Netherlands
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MESH Headings
- Agranulocytosis/genetics
- Agranulocytosis/immunology
- Drug Eruptions/genetics
- Drug Eruptions/immunology
- Epidermolysis Bullosa Acquisita/genetics
- Epidermolysis Bullosa Acquisita/immunology
- Erythema Multiforme/genetics
- Erythema Multiforme/immunology
- HLA Antigens/blood
- Humans
- Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic/genetics
- Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic/immunology
- Major Histocompatibility Complex/genetics
- Major Histocompatibility Complex/immunology
- Myasthenia Gravis/genetics
- Myasthenia Gravis/immunology
- Pemphigoid, Benign Mucous Membrane/genetics
- Pemphigoid, Benign Mucous Membrane/immunology
- Pemphigoid, Bullous/genetics
- Pemphigoid, Bullous/immunology
- Pemphigus/genetics
- Pemphigus/immunology
- Scleroderma, Systemic/genetics
- Scleroderma, Systemic/immunology
- Skin Diseases, Vesiculobullous/chemically induced
- Skin Diseases, Vesiculobullous/genetics
- Skin Diseases, Vesiculobullous/immunology
- Stevens-Johnson Syndrome/genetics
- Stevens-Johnson Syndrome/immunology
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- N Mobini
- Department of Oral Medicine and Pathology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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Arpey CJ, Elewski BE, Moritz DK, Ray Gammon W. Childhood epidermolysis bullosa acquisita. J Am Acad Dermatol 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/0190-9622(91)70107-d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita is an autoimmune blistering disease with the distinct feature of having an autoantibody directed against an antigen located below the basement membrane of human skin and mucous membrane. We identified this disease in an 8-year-old girl, the youngest patient documented by immunoelectron microscopy.
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Unis ME, Pfau RG, Patel H, Takahashi Y, Anhalt GJ. An acquired form of epidermolysis bullosa without immunoreactants. Report of a case. J Am Acad Dermatol 1985; 13:377-80. [PMID: 3897300 DOI: 10.1016/s0190-9622(85)70179-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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A patient with a 10-year history of an acquired, scarring bullous eruption localized to the anterior surfaces of the lower extremities is described. Clinical, histologic, and electron microscopic features of an acquired form of epidermolysis bullosa are shown to occur in the absence of immune deposits, a finding not previously documented.
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Meyrick Thomas RH, Kirby JD. Elastosis perforans serpiginosa and pseudoxanthoma elasticum-like skin change due to D-penicillamine. Clin Exp Dermatol 1985; 10:386-91. [PMID: 4042411 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.1985.tb00588.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Meyrick Thomas RH, Light N, Stephens AD, Avery NC, Kirby JD. Pseudoxanthoma elasticum-like skin changes induced by penicillamine. J R Soc Med 1984; 77:794-8. [PMID: 6481758 PMCID: PMC1439986 DOI: 10.1177/014107688407700917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Blackburn P, Peterson CM. Thiol-disulfide interchange between cystine and N-2-mercaptoethyl-1, 3-diaminopropane as a potential treatment for cystinuria. Anal Biochem 1984; 136:31-8. [PMID: 6324613 DOI: 10.1016/0003-2697(84)90304-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The radioprotective compound WR2721 is a thiophosphate, which, when administered orally, is activated at the acid pH of the stomach to its free thiol (MDP). The free thiol is a mucolytic compound which acts via the reduction of disulfide bonds of mucin molecules. An equimolar mixture of MDP and cysteine, in urine at pH 6.0 and 37 degrees C, when oxidized by molecular oxygen, preferentially forms the soluble mixed disulfide between MDP and cysteine. The disulfide cystine will undergo thiol-disulfide interchange with MDP; as a result, cystine crystals are effectively dissolved. Moreover, in the presence of catalytic amounts of free thiol, the disulfide of MDP will undergo thiol-disulfide interchange with cystine to dissolve cystine crystals. The mixed disulfide of MDP with cysteine is soluble in urine at pH 6.0 and 37 degrees C to at least 100 mg/ml. Chromatographic procedures which permit the analysis of MDP and its mixed disulfide derivatives as MDP-sulfonic acid are described. By these procedures, it was demonstrated that 20% of a single oral dose of WR2721 was excreted as MDP derivatives in the urine of normal volunteers. These procedures will permit the evaluation of WR2721 in the treatment of cystinuria.
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Lichen planus and primary biliary cirrhosis were seen in twenty-four patients. In seventeen patients, the cutaneous eruption followed the administration of D-penicillamine. In seven patients, lichen planus developed unrelated to therapy. Three of the latter group of patients were treated with D-penicillamine and had subsequent relapse or exacerbation of their preexisting lichen planus. The presence of lichen planus in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis and the propensity to develop this type of eruption while on D-penicillamine therapy are consistent with a graft-versus-host pathogenesis of primary biliary cirrhosis. Preexisting lichen planus should be regarded as a relative contraindication to the use of D-penicillamine in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis.
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D-Penicillamine, a heavy metal chelator used in the treatment of Wilson's disease and other conditions, may be associated with both noncutaneous and cutaneous side effects. Some of the cutaneous lesions are due to a toxic-metabolic effect on connective tissue; some may be explained on the basis of autoimmunity; some are acute sensitivity reactions, and some are secondary to unknown mechanisms. The types of cutaneous manifestations may, in some instances, be correlated with the disease being treated and the dosage and duration of penicillamine therapy.
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Shaw M, Jarrett A. Penicillamine-induced dermal fragility in Wilson's disease (hepato-lenticular degeneration). Clin Exp Dermatol 1981; 6:429-33. [PMID: 6458426 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.1981.tb02329.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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The action of D-penicillamine on collagen can cause undesired side-effects in the treatment of cystinuria and Wilson's disease, it is on the other hand essential to the therapy of rheumatoid arthritis and scleroderma. Furthermore D-penicillamine can be potentially teratogenic, since it crosses the placental barrier. From the literature and our own observation of two pregnancies it is shown that among 87 pregnant women who received D-penicillamine 46 cases were treated during the whole period of pregnancy. Two infants from the latter group were found to have severe connective-tissue defects. We suggest that the dose of D-penicillamine in pregnant patients with cystinuria and Wilson's disease should be kept as low as possible. In the case of rheumatoid arthritis D-penicillamine should not be given during pregnancy.
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Troy JL, Silvers DN, Grossman ME, Jaffe IA. Penicillamine-associated pemphigus: is it really pemphigus? J Am Acad Dermatol 1981; 4:547-55. [PMID: 7016933 DOI: 10.1016/s0190-9622(81)70055-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Penicillamine-associated bullous eruptions share with spontaneously occurring pemphigus intraepidermal acantholysis, epidermal intercellular deposition of immunoglobulin, and circulating serum antibody against the intercellular regions of the epidermis. We report the case of a penicillamine-associated bullous eruption in which there were some of the histologic features of pemphigus, but none of the immunofluorescent features. Instead, the immunofluorescent findings of bullous pemphigoid were demonstrated. Review of the literature reveals that clinical and histologic features of penicillamine-associated bullous eruptions differ in important respects from those of spontaneously occurring pemphigus. Our report adds immunologic data to evidence that the penicillamine-associated bullous eruptions may not be the same disease as spontaneously occurring pemphigus.
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Wilson BD, Birnkrant AF, Beutner EH, Maize JC. Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita: a clinical disorder of varied etiologies. Two cases and a review of immunologic and other reported findings. J Am Acad Dermatol 1980; 3:280-91. [PMID: 7005274 DOI: 10.1016/s0190-9622(80)80191-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita (EBA) is an acquired mechanobullous disorder characterized by traumatically induced bullae in skin subjected to frictional injury, i.e., acral extensor surfaces or any point of sufficient mechanical distress. Two new patients with EBA are reported. Histopathologic findings were subepidermal ballae with sparse superficial perivascular mononuclear cell inflammatory infiltrates. The periodic acid-Schiff (PAS)-positive basement membrane zone (BMZ) was split between the floor and roof of the blisters with most attached to the blister roof. Electron microscopy of normal skin from one patient revealed a bandlike zone of granular material within the dermis immediately beneath the basal lamina. Nonbranching filaments were embedded in the granular material. Electron microscopy of normal skin from the second patient revealed a markedly diminished density of anchoring fibrils but no granular material. Immunologic findings in skin biopsies were C'3, IgG, and other immunoglobulins in varying combinations in both cases and in all reported cases. Comparisons of direct immunofluorescent (IF) findings in nine reported cases with 223 cases of bullous pemphigoid (BP) suggest that BMZ deposits of IgG plus IgA and/or IgM occur more frequently in EBA than in BP. Indirect IF studies of patients' sera revealed antibodies to the BMZ in two samples of one of our two cases and in one of seven cases reported by others. While both EBA and BP characteristically yield positive IF findings in the BMZ, clinical, electron microscopic, and some immunopathologic findings indicate that the two diseases are distinct.
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Crawhall JC, Lecavalier D, Ryan P. Penicillamine, its metabolism and therapeutic applications: a review. Biopharm Drug Dispos 1979; 1:73-95. [PMID: 399737 DOI: 10.1002/bdd.2510010205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Marsden RA, Vanhegan RI, Walshe M, Hill H, Mowat AG. Pemphigus foliaceus induced by penicillamine. BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 1976; 2:1423-4. [PMID: 1009359 PMCID: PMC1690441 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.6049.1423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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