Treatment of chronic blepharokeratoconjunctivitis with local calcineurin inhibitors;Behandlung der chronischen Blepharokeratokonjunktivitis mit lokalen Kalzineurininhibitoren

Ophthalmologe

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 635-638

  Auw Hadrich C ^a   Reinhard, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calcineurin inhibitor; Chronic blepharitis; Cyclosporin A; FK506; Pimecrolimus

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN; CYCLOSPORIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PIMECROLIMUS; TACROLIMUS;

BLEPHARITIS; DRUG ANTAGONISM; HUMAN; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS; REVIEW; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; BLEPHARITIS; CALCINEURIN; CYCLOSPORINE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS; TACROLIMUS;

EID: 70349771506     PISSN: 0941293X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00347-009-1954-9     Document Type: Article

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