Treatment of a postburn keloid scar with topical captopril: Report of the first case

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Ardekani, Gholamreza Safaee ^a,b   Aghaie, Shahin ^a   Nemati, Mohammad Hassan ^c   Handjani, Farhad ^d   Kasraee, Behrooz ^a,e  

^a JAHROM UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c Department of Cardiac Surgery ^*

^d SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPTOPRIL;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BURN SCAR; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KELOID; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TOXICITY; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADOLESCENT; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; BURNS; CAPTOPRIL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KELOID;

EID: 67651210709     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31819a34db     Document Type: Letter

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