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The ichthyoses, in a way, link the past and present in retinoid therapy. Some of the first observations of the effects of deficiency or excess of vitamin A led first to the conclusion that ichthyosis and vitamin A levels were interconnected, and second to the attempts to modify their clinical manifestations with, successively, vitamin A, tretinoin, and 13-cis-retinoic acid therapy.
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Cunningham, W.J. (1984). Use of Isotretinoin in the Ichthyoses. In: Cunliffe, W.J., Miller, A.J. (eds) Retinoid Therapy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6349-1_34
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