Hot topics in leprosy [4]

Leprosy Review

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 87-88

  Handa, Sanjeev ^a   Dogra, Sunil ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTACOID; CORTICOSTEROID; MYCOBACTERIUM ANTIGEN; PREDNISOLONE;

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DEMYELINATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LEPROSY; LETTER; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NERVE FUNCTION; NEURITIS; NEUROPATHY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVERSAL REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPROSTATIC AGENTS; LEPROSY; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS;

EID: 0037345936     PISSN: 03057518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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