Abstract
Dermatologists have long noted a variety of disease responses and nonresponses to trauma and the presence of structural abnormalities. This chapter reviews the series of these phenomena and then proposes an alternative classification system for them.
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Kannangara, A.P., Ranawaka, R.R. (2019). Cutaneous Reactions. In: Smoller, B., Bagherani, N. (eds) Atlas of Dermatology, Dermatopathology and Venereology . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45134-3_27-1
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