Topical use of systemic drugs in dermatology: A comprehensive review

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1048.e1-1048.e22

  Chiu, Hsien Yi ^a   Tsai, Tsen Fang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

compounding; comprehensive review; extemporaneous; percutaneous penetration; self compounding; topical

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALLOPURINOL; ALPHA INTERFERON; BLEOMYCIN; CAFFEINE; CHLORPROMAZINE; CIDOFOVIR; CIMETIDINE; CLOBETASOL PROPIONATE; CLONAZEPAM; COLCHICINE; CYCLOSERINE; DUTASTERIDE; FINASTERIDE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GRISEOFULVIN; HYDROCORTISONE; LIDOCAINE; METHOTREXATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PHENYTOIN; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; SUCRALFATE; TESTOSTERONE; THALIDOMIDE; THIAMAZOLE; TOPICAL AGENT; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ACNE; ACNE VULGARIS; ACTINIC KERATOSIS; ACUTE HERPETIC NEURALGIA; ALLERGIC REACTION; ALLODYNIA; ALOPECIA; ANALGESIA; ANUS FISSURE; APHTHOUS ULCER; APPLICATION SITE INFLAMMATION; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BURNING SENSATION; CALCINOSIS; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; DECUBITUS; DERMATITIS; DISCOID LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; DRUG DOSAGE FORM COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EROSION; EROSIVE DERMATOSIS; FLUOROURACIL INDUCED STOMATITIS; GENITAL HERPES; GENITAL ULCER; HEMANGIOMA; HERPES SIMPLEX; HIDRADENOMA; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; HYPERPIGMENTATION; IMMUNOMODULATION; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LEG ULCER; LEUKOPLAKIA; LICHEN PLANUS; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; LYMPHOMATOID PAPULOSIS; MALE TYPE ALOPECIA; MOUTH PAIN; MOUTH ULCER; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MUCOSAL DISEASE; NEURALGIA; PERIODONTITIS; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; PSORIASIS VULGARIS; RADIATION DERMATITIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SCABIES; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN FLAP SURVIVAL; SKIN IRRITATION; SKIN ULCER; STOMATITIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TINEA CORPORIS; TINEA PEDIS; TINEA VERSICOLOR; ULCER; ULCERATIVE DERMATOSIS; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU; VASCULITIS; VERRUCA VULGARIS; VITILIGO; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 80054118230     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: 10976787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2010.08.034     Document Type: Review

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