Warts and molluscum contagiosum: Beware of treatments worse than the disease

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 1997, Pages

  Ordoukhanian, Elsa ^a   Lane, Alfred T ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PODOPHYLLIN; RETINOIC ACID; SALICYLIC ACID;

CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRYOTHERAPY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM; PAPILLOMA VIRUS; PODOPHYLLUM; RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; SKIN INFECTION; SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERRUCA VULGARIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 1842370876     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.1997.02.167     Document Type: Review

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