Randomized prospective comparative study: Short-term treatment with ciclopiroxolamine (cream and solution) versus boric acid in the treatment of otomycosis

Mycoses

Volumn 45, Issue 7-8, 2002, Pages 317-328

  Del Palacio, A ^a   Cuetara M S ^b   Lopez Suso M J ^a   Amor, E ^c   Garau, M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL SEVERO OCHOA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL DE MÓSTOLES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antimycotic chemotherapy; Boric acid; Ciclopiroxolamine; Otomycosis; Short term topical treatment

Indexed keywords

BORIC ACID; CICLOCHEM; CICLOPIROXOLAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BURNING SENSATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EARDRUM PERFORATION; EXTERNAL OTITIS; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MYCOSIS; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELAPSE; SIDE EFFECT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BORIC ACIDS; EAR DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; OTITIS EXTERNA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PYRIDONES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; MARTES PENNANTI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0036415143     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0507.2002.00737.x     Document Type: Article

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