Is prescription of isotretinoin still justified?;Editorial - Ist die verschreibung von isotretinoin noch vertretbar?

JDDG - Journal of the German Society of Dermatology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Itin, Peter ^a  

^a Universitatsspital Basel Dermatologie   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ISOTRETINOIN;

ACNE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANXIETY DISORDER; DEPRESSION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MOOD DISORDER; SUICIDE;

EID: 33847618827     PISSN: 16100379     EISSN: 16100387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1610-0387.2007.06238.x     Document Type: Editorial

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