Personal experience in the treatment of vulvar lichen sclerosus;La nostra esperienza nel trattamento del lichen sclerosus vulvare

Minerva Ginecologica

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 207-212

  Cattani, P ^a,c   Manfrin, E ^b   Presti, F ^a   Sartori, R ^a   Buffo, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b Istituto di Anatomia Patologica   (Italy)

^c POLICLINICO BORGO ROMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clobetasol; Lichen sclerosus, vulvar

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CLOBETASOL PROPIONATE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYALINE DEGENERATION; HYPERKERATOSIS; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; PRURITUS; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VULVA DISEASE;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BIOPSY; CLOBETASOL; DRUG EVALUATION; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; MIDDLE AGED; REMISSION INDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; VULVA; VULVAR DISEASES;

EID: 0030949962     PISSN: 00264784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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