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MeSH Heading: Fox-Fordyce Disease
Tree Number(s): C17.800.946.492.285
Unique ID: D005588
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005588
Annotation: pruritic apocrine dis in women
Scope Note: Chronic pruritic disease, usually in women, characterized by small follicular papular eruptions in APOCRINE GLANDS areas. It is caused by obstruction and rupture of intraepidermal apocrine ducts.
Entry Version: FOX FORDYCE DIS
Entry Term(s): Fox-Fordyce Syndrome; Miliaria, Apocrine
Date Introduced: 1966/01/01
Last Updated: 2010/06/25

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