Response of Behcet's syndrome to brand-name but not generic tetracycline

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 159-160

  Cohen, J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERIC DRUG; INDOMETACIN; PREDNISONE; TETRACYCLINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ARTHROPATHY; BEHCET DISEASE; BIOEQUIVALENCE; CASE REPORT; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; FEMALE; GENITAL ULCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; MOUTH ULCER; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; TREATMENT FAILURE; VASCULITIS;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BEHCET SYNDROME; DRUGS, GENERIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; TETRACYCLINE;

EID: 0030608671     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.1997.tb01049.x     Document Type: Letter

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