Multiple factitious hemifacial lesions in Wallenberg syndrome.

J Dtsch Dermatol Ges

Department of Dermatology, Hietzing municipal hospital, Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases, Hospital Hietzing.

Published: March 2015

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