Tetracycline and nicotinamide for the treatment of bullous pemphigoid: Our experience in Singapore

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 327-330

  Goon, Anthony Teik Jin ^a   Tan, S H ^a   Khoo, L S W ^a   Tan, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL SKIN CENTRE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bullous pemphigoid; Nicotinamide; Tetracycline

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DOXYCYCLINE; NICOTINAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; MALE; PEMPHIGOID; SINGAPORE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTIBIOTICS, TETRACYCLINE; COMPLEMENT 3; DIARRHEA; DOXYCYCLINE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; NIACINAMIDE; PEMPHIGOID, BULLOUS; RECURRENCE; REMISSION INDUCTION; SKIN; TETRACYCLINE; VOMITING;

EID: 0033808283     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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