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Acne is widely considered to be a simple, self-limited disorder of adolescents. The majority of lay people, but also many physicians, believe that acne is a self-limiting disorder so that treatment is only required in extreme cases. However, not only successful acne treatment can become difficult, but acne, itself, can be a devastating disease for the patient, both because it manifests on visible body parts and in children near puberty, who are vulnerable both socially and psychologically, and because it can heal with considerable scar sequelae [1].
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Zouboulis, C.C., Gollnick, H.P.M. (2014). Understanding Acne as a Chronic Disease. In: Zouboulis, C., Katsambas, A., Kligman, A. (eds) Pathogenesis and Treatment of Acne and Rosacea. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69375-8_27
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