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    Tatsuya Horikawa, Atsushi Fukunaga & Chikako Nishigori

  2. Department of Internal Related Division of Dermatology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-1 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-un, Kobe, 650-0017, Japan

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Horikawa, T., Fukunaga, A., Nishigori, C. (2010). Solar Urticaria. In: Zuberbier, T., Grattan, C.E.H., Maurer, M. (eds) Urticaria and Angioedema. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79048-8_9

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