Treatment of postsurgical pyoderma gangrenosum with a high-potency topical steroid

Ear, Nose and Throat Journal

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Hawryluk, Elena Balestreire ^a   Penn, Sara Kaprove ^a   Wasko, Mary Chester ^a   Johnson, Jonas T ^a   Ferris, Laura Korb ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOBETASOL; CYCLOSPORIN A;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; COLONOSCOPY; CONSULTATION; DEBRIDEMENT; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENTERITIS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOCHEZIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INSOMNIA; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; NAUSEA; NEUTROPHIL; OSTEOPENIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SKIN FLORA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STEROID THERAPY; SURGICAL WOUND; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TOPICAL TREATMENT; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND HEALING; XEROPHTHALMIA;

EID: 77953764800     PISSN: 01455613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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