Topical treatment of necrotising herpes zoster with betulin from birch bark

Forschende Komplementarmedizin

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 271-273

  Weckesser, Steffi ^a   Laszczyk, Melanie N ^b   Müller, Marcel L ^a   Schempp, Christoph M ^a   Schumann, Hauke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Betulin Institute   (Germany)

Author keywords

Betulin; Birch bark; Triterpenes; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

BETULIN; TRITERPENE;

ARTICLE; BARK; BIRCH; CASE REPORT; CHEMISTRY; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SKIN DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

BETULA; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLANT BARK; SKIN DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRITERPENES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 78049506526     PISSN: 16614119     EISSN: 16614127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000320592     Document Type: Article

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