Successful treatment of acrodermatitis continua of Hallopeau with sequential combination of calcipotriol and tacrolimus ointments

Dermatology

Volumn 211, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 351-355

  Brill, Thomas J ^a   Elshorst Schmidt, Thomas ^a   Valesky, Eva M ^a   Kaufmann, Roland ^a   Thaçi, Diamant ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acrodermatitis continua of Hallopeau; Calcipotriol; Pustular psoriasis; Tacrolimus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CALCIPOTRIOL; DAPSONE; ETRETIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; LIVER ENZYME; METHOTREXATE; PSORALEN; TACROLIMUS; TAZAROTENE; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ABNORMALLY HIGH SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATION IN BLOOD; ACANTHOSIS; ACRODERMATITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATROPHIC SKIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE DURATION; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FINGER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LONG TERM CARE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MONOTHERAPY; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; OINTMENT; PAPILLOMATOSIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUSTULE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION;

ACRODERMATITIS; ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ADULT; CALCITRIOL; DERMATOLOGIC AGENTS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HAND DERMATOSES; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; OINTMENTS; PSORIASIS; TACROLIMUS;

EID: 27844527081     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000088507     Document Type: Article

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