Therapeutic effectiveness of various treatments for eosinophilic pustular folliculitis

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 155-159

  Fukamachi, Shoko ^a   Kabashima, Kenji ^a   Sugita, Kazunari ^a   Kobayashi, Miwa ^a   Tokura, Yoshiki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyclosporine; Eosinophilic pustular folliculitis; Indomethacin; Tacrolimus

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; CYCLOSPORIN; DAPSONE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INDOMETACIN; LOXOPROFEN; MINOCYCLINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; ROXITHROMYCIN; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; EOSINOPHIL PUSTULAR FOLLICULITIS; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FOLLICULITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; OINTMENT; PAPULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PUSTULE; RASH; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CYCLOSPORINE; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FOLLICULITIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INDOMETHACIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TACROLIMUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 63049135997     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-0578     Document Type: Article

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