Novel, single-dose, topical treatment of tinea pedis using terbinafine: Results of a dose-finding clinical trial

Mycoses

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-6

  De Chauvin, Martine Feuilhade ^a   Viguié Vallanet, Claude ^b   Kienzler, Jean Luc ^c   Larnier, Catherine ^c  

^a SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Paris Descartes University   (France)

^c Department of Clinical Pharmacology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dermatophyte; Single dose; Terbinafine; Tinea pedis

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; TERBINAFINE;

ADULT; APPLICATION SITE BURNING; APPLICATION SITE DRYNESS; APPLICATION SITE ECZEMA; APPLICATION SITE IRRITATION; APPLICATION SITE PRURITUS; ARTICLE; BULGARIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; FRANCE; FUNGAL EXAMINATION; FUNGUS CULTURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOM; TINEA PEDIS;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ADULT; BULGARIA; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EPIDERMOPHYTON; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAPHTHALENES; TINEA PEDIS; TRICHOPHYTON;

SOLEIDAE; TINEA PEDIS;

EID: 36749043218     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2007.01429.x     Document Type: Article

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