The painful purple digit: An alarming complication of Candida albicans antigen treatment of recalcitrant warts

Dermatitis

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 38-40

  Perman, Marissa ^a   Sterling, J Barton ^a   Gaspari, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CANDIDA ANTIGEN; DICHLOROACETIC ACID; IMIQUIMOD; LACTIC ACID PLUS SALICYLIC ACID; LIQUID NITROGEN; TRICHLOROACETIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CYANOSIS; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; EDEMA; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THUMB; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERRUCA VULGARIS;

EID: 18744393490     PISSN: 17103568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01206501-200503000-00008     Document Type: Article

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