The successful treatment of prurigo pigmentosa with macrolide antibiotics

Dermatology

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 67-69

  Yazawa, Norihito ^a   Ihn, Hironobu ^a   Yamane, Kenichi ^a   Etoh, Takafumi ^b   Tamaki, Kunihiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO TEISHIN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Macrolide; Prurigo pigmentosa

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; MACROLIDE; MINOCYCLINE; OXATOMIDE; ROXYTHROMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURIGO; PRURITUS; RASH; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLARITHROMYCIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; PRURIGO; ROXITHROMYCIN; SKIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035102759     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000051591     Document Type: Article

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