Clinical implications of aging skin: Cutaneous disorders in the elderly

American Journal of Clinical Dermatology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 73-86

  Farage, Miranda A ^a   Miller, Kenneth W ^a   Berardesca, Enzo ^b   Maibach, Howard I ^c  

^a PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

^b SAN GALLICANO DERMATOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ASCORBIC ACID; AZELAIC ACID; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CICLOPIROX; CLOBETASOL; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; CYTOKINE; DIURETIC AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; ISOTRETINOIN; KERATOLYTIC AGENT; METHOTREXATE; METRONIDAZOLE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NICOTINAMIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PIROCTONE ETHANOLAMINE; RETINAL; TACROLIMUS; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VARICELLA ZOSTER VACCINE;

AGED; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; BULLOUS PEMPHIGOID; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTACT DERMATITIS; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; DECUBITUS; DRUG ERUPTION; ECZEMA; ERYTHEMA; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE REACTION; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; MUCOUS MEMBRANE PEMPHIGOID; PARANEOPLASTIC PEMPHIGUS; PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RASH; REVIEW; ROSACEA; SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL DISORDER; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN INFECTION; STASIS DERMATITIS; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; URTICARIA; XEROSIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN AGING; SKIN DISEASES; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 61949321203     PISSN: 11750561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00128071-200910020-00001     Document Type: Review

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