Influence of treatment of erosive lichen planus of the vulva on its prognosis

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 289-294

  Cooper, Susan M ^a   Wojnarowska, Fenella ^a  

^a CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE DERIVATIVE; BECLOMETASONE DIPROPIONATE; BETAMETHASONE; CLOBETASOL BUTYRATE; CLOBETASOL PROPIONATE; COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; ENEMA; ERYTHROMYCIN ETHYLSUCCINATE; ETRETIN; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROCORTISONE ACETATE; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE SULFATE; MINOCYCLINE; MOMETASONE FUROATE; NICOTINAMIDE; NYSTATIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE; PIMECROLIMUS; PREDNISOLONE; TSUKUBAENOLIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LICHEN PLANUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCAR FORMATION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SYMPTOM; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; VULVA;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LICHEN PLANUS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; VULVAR DISEASES; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33645102664     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 0003987X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.142.3.289     Document Type: Article

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