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  1. National Skin Centre, Singapore, Singapore

    Yan Ling Kong

  2. Dermatology Service, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

    Emily Yiping Gan

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  2. Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Research Center for Immunodeficiencies (RCID), Children’s Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran

    Nima Rezaei

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Kong, Y.L., Gan, E.Y. (2020). Asymptomatic Atrophic Plaque on the Face. In: Rahmani, F., Rezaei, N. (eds) Pediatric Autoimmunity and Transplantation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26280-8_17

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