Sinecatechins: Treatment of genital warts

Drugs of the Future

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-30

  Scheinfeld, Noah ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHIN; POLYPHENON; SINECATECHIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEREGEN;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BURN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; DESQUAMATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DYSURIA; EDEMA; EROSION; ERYTHEMA; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GENITAL HERPES; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LYMPHADENITIS; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PHIMOSIS; PRURITUS; PYODERMA; RASH; SCAR; SKIN INDURATION; SKIN IRRITATION; SKIN ULCER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; URETHRA STENOSIS; UTERINE CERVIX DYSPLASIA; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VESICULAR RASH; VULVITIS;

EID: 40949161509     PISSN: 03778282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1358/dof.2008.033.01.1170146     Document Type: Article

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