Received February 14, 2012, Revised April 21, 2012, Accepted for publication May 4, 2012 Corresponding author: Beom Joon Kim, Department of Dermatology, Chung-Ang University Hospital, 102 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul 156-755, Korea. Tel: 82-2-6299-1525, Fax: 82-2-823-1049, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribut...

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