Acute and chronic paronychia

American Family Physician

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Rigopoulos, Dimitris ^a,c   Larios, George ^a,c   Gregoriou, Stamatis ^a,d   Alevizos, Alevizos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b Health Center of Vyronas   (Greece)

^c ANDREAS SYGROS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMCORT; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; BACITRACIN; BETAMETHASONE; BETAMETHASONE DIPROPIONATE; BETAMETHASONE VALERATE; CICLOPIROX; CICLOPIROXOLAMINE; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOTRIMAZOLE; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ECONAZOLE; FAMCICLOVIR; FLUCONAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACEPONATE; MYCOLOG; NEOMYCIN; NEOSPORIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; NYSTATIN; POLYMYXIN B; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; STEROID; TERBINAFINE; TRIAMCINOLONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALACICLOVIR;

DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG EFFECT; EXCISION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INJURY; NAIL INFECTION; NAUSEA; PARONYCHIA; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DERMATOLOGIC AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; NAIL DISEASES; PARONYCHIA; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 38849197076     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 0002838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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