Topical Calendula officinalis L. successfully treated exfoliative cheilitis: A case report

Cases Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Roveroni Favaretto, Lúcia Helena Denardi ^a   Lodi, Karina Bortolin ^a   Almeida, Janete Dias ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT; SUNSCREEN; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CASE REPORT; CHEEK MUCOSA; CHEILITIS; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DESQUAMATION; DRY SKIN; ESTHETICS; EXFOLIATIVE CHEILITIS; HUMAN; LIP; MALE; MARIGOLD; MOUTH EXAMINATION; ORAL BREATHING; RECURRENT DISEASE;

EID: 77953460819     PISSN: 17571626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1757-1626-2-9077     Document Type: Article

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