The treatment of viral warts with topical cidofovir 1%: Our experience of seven paediatric patients

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 223-224

  Field, S ^a   Irvine, A D ^b   Kirby, B ^a  

^a ADELAIDE AND MEATH HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b OUR LADY S CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cidofovir; Human papillomavirus; Verrucae; Viral warts

Indexed keywords

CIDOFOVIR; CIMETIDINE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; CAUTERIZATION; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRYOTHERAPY; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG COST; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HUMAN; LETTER; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; OINTMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKIN ABSORPTION; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN IRRITATION; SKIN TINGLING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VERRUCA PLANTARIS; VERRUCA VULGARIS; WART VIRUS;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CHILD; CYTOSINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; PHOSPHONIC ACIDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WARTS;

EID: 57649197938     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: 13652133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2008.08947.x     Document Type: Letter

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