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25. Fine JD, Johnson LB, Suchindran C, et al: Cutaneous and skin-associated musculoskeletal manifestations of inherited EB: the National Epidermolysis Bullosa Registry experience.   In: Fine JD, Bauer EA, McGuire J, Moshell A, ed. Epidermolysis Bullosa: Clinical, Epidemiologic, and Laboratory Advances, and the Findings of the National Epidermolysis Bullosa Registry,  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press; 1999:114-146.

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35. Fine JD, Smith LT: Non-molecular diagnostic testing of inherited epidermolysis bullosa: current techniques, major findings, and relative sensitivity and specificity.   In: Fine JD, Bauer EA, McGuire J, Moshell A, ed. Epidermolysis Bullosa: Clinical, Epidemiologic, and Laboratory Advances, and the Findings of the National Epidermolysis Bullosa Registry,  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press; 1999:48-78.

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37. Fenjves ES: Gene therapy: principles and potential application in inherited epidermolysis bullosa.   In: Fine JD, Bauer EA, McGuire J, Moshell A, ed. Epidermolysis Bullosa: Clinical, Epidemiologic, and Laboratory Advances, and the Findings of the National Epidermolysis Bullosa Registry,  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press; 1999:407-419.

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47. Fine JD, Eady RAJ: Tetracycline and epidermolysis bullosa simplex–a new indication for one of the oldest and most widely used drugs in dermatology. Arch Dermatol  1999; 135:981-982.

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49. Fine JD, Weiner M, Stein A, et al: Systemic isotretinoin and recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB): results of a Phase 1 clinical trial. J Invest Dermatol  2001; 117:543.

50. Fine JD, Bauer EA, McGuire J: The treatment of inherited epidermolysis bullosa: nonmolecular approaches.   In: Fine JD, Bauer EA, McGuire J, Moshell A, ed. Epidermolysis Bullosa: Clinical, Epidemiologic, and Laboratory Advances, and the Findings of the National Epidermolysis Bullosa Registry,  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press; 1999:374-406.

51. Fine JD, McGuire J: Altered nutrition and inherited epidermolysis bullosa.   In: Fine JD, Bauer EA, McGuire J, Moshell A, ed. Epidermolysis Bullosa: Clinical, Epidemiologic, and Laboratory Advances, and the Findings of the National Epidermolysis Bullosa Registry,  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press; 1999:225-235.