Genital ulcers: Evaluation and treatment

Dermatologic Clinics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 673-685

  Rosen, T ^a   Brown, T J ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DILOXANIDE; DOXYCYCLINE; EMETINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FAMCICLOVIR; ITRACONAZOLE; METRONIDAZOLE; STIBOGLUCONATE SODIUM; TETRACYCLINE; TINIDAZOLE; VALACICLOVIR; VIRUS DNA;

AMEBIASIS; ANAMNESIS; AUTOMUTILATION; BEHCET DISEASE; CALYMMATOBACTERIUM; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CROHN DISEASE; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GENITAL HERPES; GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; GENITAL ULCER; GRANULOMA INGUINALE; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; LEISHMANIASIS; LICHEN PLANUS; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; ULCUS MOLLE;

EID: 0031787760     PISSN: 07338635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0733-8635(05)70032-2     Document Type: Article

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