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The Journal of Investigative Dermatology (1962) 39, 547–550; doi:10.1038/jid.1962.83

Studies on Serum Copper

II. The Copper Levels in Relation to Corticosteroid Administration1

This investigation was supported by United States Public Health Service Grant Number RG-7534.

George Lipkin MD, Franz Herrmann MD and Leona Mandol BA

1 From the Department of Dermatology of the New York University Schools of Medicine and the Skin and Cancer Unit of University Hospital, New York, New York.

Received 2 February 1962.

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