The outcome after cryosurgery and intralesional steroid injection in vulvar lichen sclerosus corresponds to preoperative histopathological findings

Dermatology

Volumn 210, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 218-222

  Stücker, Markus ^a   Grape, Jonas ^a   Bechara, Falk Georges ^a   Hoffmann, Klaus ^a   Altmeyer, Peter ^a  

^a ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryosurgery; Lichen sclerosus; Vulva

Indexed keywords

STEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYOSURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CRYOSURGERY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; VULVAR DISEASES;

EID: 17244374454     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000083513     Document Type: Article

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