Parental satisfaction, efficacy, and adverse events in 54 patients treated with cantharidin for molluscum contagiosum infection

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 161-165

  Cathcart, Shelley ^a,b   Coloe, Jacqueline ^a   Morrell, Dean S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Campus Box 7287 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cantharidin; Molluscum contagiosum

Indexed keywords

CANTHARIDIN;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPIGMENTATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM; PAIN; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRURITUS; SATISFACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SECONDARY INFECTION; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; CANTHARIDIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM; PAIN; PARENTS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 59349117431     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922808326085     Document Type: Article

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