Molluscum contagiosum: What's new and true?

Pediatric Annals

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 321-325

  Coloe, Jacquelyn ^a   Burkhart, Craig N ^b   Morrell, Dean S ^b  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPRURITIC AGENT; CANDIDA ANTIGEN; CANTHARIDIN; CIDOFOVIR; CIMETIDINE; CORTICOSTEROID; IMIQUIMOD; NITRIC OXIDE; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE; RETINOID DERIVATIVE; RETINOL; SALICYLIC ACID; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT; IRRITANT AGENT; KERATOLYTIC AGENT;

ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRYOTHERAPY; CURETTAGE; DERMATOLOGY; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM; PEDIATRICS; PRURITUS; REVIEW; CHILD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG COMBINATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POXVIRUS; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIROLOGY;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ANTIPRURITICS; CANTHARIDIN; CHILD; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IRRITANTS; KERATOLYTIC AGENTS; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POXVIRIDAE; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67849106334     PISSN: 00904481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/00904481-20090513-01     Document Type: Review

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