Use of clofazimine in dermatology

Journal of Drugs in Dermatology

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 846-851

  Gurfinkel, Paula ^a   Pina, Juliana Carnevale ^a   Ramos e Silva, Marcia ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CHLOROQUINE; CLOFAZIMINE; PREDNISONE; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM; LEPROSTATIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ACNE; ACNE AGMINATA; ACUTE FEBRILE NEUTROPHILIC DERMATOSIS; ANEMIA; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DERMATOLOGY; DERMATOSIS CINECIENTA; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; EOSINOPHILIC ENTERITIS; FARBER DISEASE; FATIGUE; GIANT CELL ANNULAR ELASTOLYTIC GRANULOMA; GRANULOMA; GRANULOMA ANNULARIS; GRANULOMATOUS SKIN DISEASE; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; LEPROSY; LOBOMYCOSIS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; MALACOPLAKIA; NAUSEA; NECROBIOSIS LIPOIDICA; NEURALGIA; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; OROFACIAL GRANULOMATOSIS; PALATE; PRURITUS; PUSTULAR PSORIASIS; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; REMISSION; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN GRANULOMA; SPLEEN INFARCTION; SUBCUTANEOUS LIPOGRANULOMATOSIS; THROMBOSIS; VOMITING; WEBER CHRISTIAN PANNICULITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CLOFAZIMINE; HUMANS; LEPROSTATIC AGENTS; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 70349314514     PISSN: 15459616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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