Practical tip: Precooling topical calcineurin inhibitors tube; reduces burning sensation

Dermatology Online Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Al Khenaizan, Sultan ^a  

^a KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; HISTAMINE; PIMECROLIMUS; SUBSTANCE P; TACROLIMUS; TRYPTASE; CALCINEURIN; DERMATOLOGICAL AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE;

APPLICATION SITE BURNING; APPLICATION SITE DISCOMFORT; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COOLING; DERMATITIS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FREEZING; HUMAN; LETTER; MAST CELL DEGRANULATION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MEDIATOR RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; ROSACEA; SKIN BURNING SENSATION; SKIN PRURITUS; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COLD; DRUG ANTAGONISM; PAIN; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; CALCINEURIN; COLD TEMPERATURE; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; DERMATOLOGIC AGENTS; HUMANS; PAIN; TACROLIMUS;

EID: 77953088148     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10872108     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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