Successful treatment of pyoderma gangrenosum associated with juvenile idiopathic arthritis with a combination of topical tacrolimus and oral prednisolone

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 489-490

  Chandrasekhara, Pradeep Kumar Shenoy ^a   Jayachandran, Nambiar Veettil ^a   Thomas, Joe ^a   Agrawal, Sumeet ^a   Narsimulu, Gumdal ^a  

^a NIZAM'S INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADOLESCENT; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUSTULE; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; SKIN BIOPSY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADOLESCENT; ARTHRITIS, JUVENILE RHEUMATOID; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; TACROLIMUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER;

EID: 61549118492     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-008-1066-y     Document Type: Letter

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