Coping with mild inflammatory catamenial acne: A clinical and bioinstrumental split-face assessment

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 278-282

  Petit, Ludivine ^a   Piérard Franchimont, Claudine ^a   Uhoda, Emmanuelle ^a   Vroome, Valérie ^b   Cauwenbergh, Geert ^b   Piérard, Gérald E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b Barrier Therapeutics   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acne; Biometrology; Comedometry; Miconazole; Ovarian cycle

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DRUG DOSAGE; DRUG PRODUCTS; FLUORESCENCE; NITRATES;

CATAMENIAL ACNE; MULTIFACTORIAL DISEASES; SKIN CONDITIONS;

SKIN;

CYANOACRYLATE; MICONAZOLE; MICONAZOLE NITRATE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PETROLATUM; ZINC OXIDE;

ACNE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMEDO; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DENSITY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; OVARY CYCLE; PAPULE; PASTE; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; SKIN BIOPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACNE VULGARIS; ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, HORMONAL; DERMATOLOGIC AGENTS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICONAZOLE; OINTMENT BASES; OINTMENTS; PETROLATUM; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 7244250121     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2004.00083.x     Document Type: Article

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