A risk-benefit assessment of agents used in the treatment of scabies

Drug Safety

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 386-393

  Elgart, Mervyn L ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALSAM PERU; BENZYL BENZOATE; CHLORPHENOTANE; CROTAMITON; FLUBENDAZOLE; IVERMECTIN; LINDANE; MALATHION; METHOTREXATE; NITROFURAL; ORGANOCHLORINE INSECTICIDE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE INSECTICIDE; PERMETHRIN; SULFUR; TIABENDAZOLE;

APLASTIC ANEMIA; CARDIOTOXICITY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CONTACT DERMATITIS; CONVULSION; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOXICITY; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; FINGER NAIL; HEADACHE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCABIES; SKIN IRRITATION; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; SYMPTOM; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VOMITING;

EID: 0029897098     PISSN: 01145916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002018-199614060-00004     Document Type: Review

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