Tinea capitis: Epidemiology, diagnosis and management strategies

Pediatric Drugs

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 779-783

  Pomeranz, Albert J ^a   Sabnis, Svapna S ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; FLUCONAZOLE; GRISEOFULVIN; ITRACONAZOLE; LIVER ENZYME; PREDNISONE; SELENIUM SULFIDE; SHAMPOO; TERBINAFINE;

ACUTE INTERMITTENT PORPHYRIA; ALOPECIA; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FUNGUS SPORE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FAILURE; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; NAUSEA; NORTH AMERICA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCALP; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; TINEA CAPITIS; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TRICHOPHYTON TONSURANS; VOMITING;

EID: 0036907094     PISSN: 11745878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00128072-200204120-00002     Document Type: Review

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