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Disorders Resulting from Physical Factors

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The skin is especially vulnerable to many physical triggering factors, causing many distinctive clinical features as shown in this chapter: erythema ab igne, actinic lichen planus, phytophotodermatitis, colloid milium, and dermatitis artefacta.

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Ma, DL. et al. (2018). Disorders Resulting from Physical Factors. In: Zhu, WY., Tan, C., Zhang, Rz. (eds) Atlas of Skin Disorders. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8037-1_8

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