Pediatric scabies

Cutis

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 193-196

  Arya, Vinay ^a   Molinaro, Michael J ^a   Majewski, Sebastian S ^c   Schwartz, Robert A ^b  

^a Dermatology   (United States)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CROTAMITON; IVERMECTIN; KERATOLYTIC AGENT; LINDANE; PERMETHRIN; SALICYLIC ACID; SULFUR;

APLASTIC ANEMIA; BLOOD TOXICITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CREAM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SAFETY; ERYTHEMA; HUMAN; INFESTATION; LIFE CYCLE; LOTION; MITE; NAUSEA; NEUROTOXICITY; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PAPULE; PEDIATRICS; PRURITUS; REVIEW; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; SCABIES; SEIZURE; SKIN DISEASE; TOPICAL TREATMENT; AGE; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; HUMANS; SCABIES;

EID: 0037945569     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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