What's the best treatment for cradle cap?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 232-233

  Sheffield, Ryan C ^a   Crawford, Paul ^a   Wright, Sarah Towner ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; COAL TAR; CORTICOSTEROID; EMOLLIENT AGENT; KETOCONAZOLE; MINERAL OIL; PLACEBO; PYRITHIONE ZINC; SELENIUM SULFIDE; SHAMPOO; COSMETIC; STEROID;

BATH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CREAM; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; MALASSEZIA FURFUR; MYCOSIS; NEWBORN CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SCALP; SCALP HAIR; SEBORRHEA CAPITIS; SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; NEWBORN; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SKIN DISEASE; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; DERMATITIS, SEBORRHEIC; EMOLLIENTS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HAIR PREPARATIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KETOCONAZOLE; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SCALP DERMATOSES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STEROIDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947411757     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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