Update on the treatment of alopecia areata;Actualización terapéutica en alopecia areata

Actas Dermo-Sifiliograficas

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 266-276

  Galan Gutierrez M ^a   Rodriguez Bujaldon A ^a   Moreno Gimenez J C ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO REINA SOFÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alopecia areata; Corticosteroids; Cyclosporine; Diphenylcyclopropenone

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; BETAMETHASONE; BETAMETHASONE VALERATE; BIMATOPROST; BIOTIN; CANDIDIN; CLOBETASOL PROPIONATE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; DESOXIMETASONE; DEXAMETHASONE; DITHRANOL; ETANERCEPT; IMIPRAMINE; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MINOXIDIL; PARAMETHASONE ACETATE; PLACEBO; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; PROSTAGLANDIN F2; PROTOPORPHYRIN; RUBEFACIENT; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; TACROLIMUS; UNINDEXED DRUG; ZINC ASPARTATE; ZINC SULFATE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALOPECIA AREATA; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSULTATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEVER; HAIR GROWTH; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LASER; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOTHERAPY; REVIEW; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ALGORITHMS; ALOPECIA AREATA; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY;

EID: 66249131302     PISSN: 00017310     EISSN: 15782190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1578-2190(09)70063-0     Document Type: Article

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