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Acne Clinic: Morphogenesis

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The comedo is the initial, primary lesion of acne. It is an impaction of corneocytes within sebaceous follicles. Comedones develop through the following stages.

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  1. Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Munich, Germany

    Gerd Plewig

  2. Department of Dermatology, Environmental Medicine and Health Theory, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

    Bodo Melnik

  3. Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    WenChieh Chen

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Plewig, G., Melnik, B., Chen, W. (2019). Acne Clinic: Morphogenesis. In: Plewig and Kligman´s Acne and Rosacea. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49274-2_4

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