Successful treatment of lupoid cutaneous leishmaniasis with glucantime and topical trichloroacetic acid (A case report)

Korean Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 175-177

  Nilforoushzadeh, Mohammad Ali ^a   Sadeghian, Giti ^a   Jaffary, Fariba ^a,b   Ziaei, Hengameh ^b   Shirani Bidabad, Leila ^a   Mahzoni, Parvin ^b  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cutaneous leishmaniasis; Leishmanis tropica; Trichloroacetic acid

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; MEGLUMINE ANTIMONATE; PETROLATUM; TRICHLOROACETIC ACID; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT; MEGLUMINE; MEGLUMINE ANTIMONIATE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND;

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIN SKIN TEST; LUPOID SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NOSE SMEAR; PAPULE; RECURRENT INFECTION; SCAR; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

LEISHMANIA TROPICA;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; HUMANS; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; MEGLUMINE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; TRICHLOROACETIC ACID;

EID: 56149125112     PISSN: 00234001     EISSN: 17380006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3347/kjp.2008.46.3.175     Document Type: Article

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