The Medical Treatment of Cicatricial Alopecia

Seminars in Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 56-59

  Price, Vera H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

alopecia; antibiotics; cicatricial; cyclosporine; hydroxychloroquine; isotretinoin; mycophenolate mofetil; scarring; steroid; therapy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFALEXIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; DERMATOLOGICAL AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; ISOTRETINOIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OIL; PIMECROLIMUS; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; TACROLIMUS; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ALOPECIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CENTRAL CENTRIFUGAL CICATRICIAL ALOPECIA; CHRONIC CUTANEOUS LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; CLASSIC PSEUDOPELADE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE MARKER; DISSECTING CELLULITIS; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EYEBROW; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; FOLLICULARIS DECALVANS; FOLLICULITIS; FRONTAL FIBROSING ALOPECIA; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GRAHAM FIBROSING ALOPECIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOMODULATION; KERATOSIS FOLLICULITIS SPINULOSA DECALVANS; LICHEN PLANOPILARIS; LIVER TOXICITY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; OINTMENT; RETINOPATHY; REVIEW; SCALP; SCALP HAIR; SCAR ALOPECIA; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN BIOPSY; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TOPICAL TREATMENT; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ALOPECIA; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CICATRIX; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646004594     PISSN: 10855629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sder.2006.01.008     Document Type: Review

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