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Letter to the Editor| Volume 54, ISSUE 1, P54-56, April 2009

Clinical, histological and genetic investigation of Buschke–Fischer–Brauer's disease in Tunisian families

      Buschke–Fischer–Brauer's disease or the type I of punctate PPK (MIM 148600) is a rare hereditary skin disease that is usually inherited as an autosomal dominant trait and its incidence was reported as 1.17/100,000 inhabitants in Croatia [
      • Stanimirovic A.
      • Kansky A.
      • Basta-Juzbasic A.
      • Skerlev M.
      • Beck T.
      Hereditary palmoplantar keratoderma, type papulosa, in Croatia.
      ].

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