Potassium iodide in dermatology

Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 390-393

  Hassan, Iffat ^a   Keen, Abid ^a  

^a GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTITHYROID AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; LITHIUM; POTASSIUM IODIDE; POTASSIUM SPARING DIURETIC AGENT; SULFONAMIDE;

ACNE; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ARTHRALGIA; BULLOUS SKIN DISEASE; CHRONIC URTICARIA; COUGHING; DERMATITIS HERPETIFORMIS; DIARRHEA; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG INFORMATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RESEARCH; EOSINOPHILIA; ERYTHEMA; FEVER; GOITER; GRANULOMATOUS VASCULITIS; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOCOMPLEMENTEMIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LARYNGITIS; LUNG EDEMA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MUCOSAL BLEEDING; PANNICULITIS; PAROTID GLAND DISEASE; PERIARTERITIS; PHARYNGITIS; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PUSTULAR PSORIASIS; RASH; REVIEW; SERUM SICKNESS; SKIN BLEEDING; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SKIN NODULE; SPOROTRICHOSIS; STOMACH DISEASE; STOMACH PAIN; SUBCUTANEOUS MYCOSIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TONSILLITIS; URTICARIA; VASCULITIS; VOMITING; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

DERMATITIS; DERMATOLOGIC AGENTS; DERMATOMYCOSES; HUMANS; POTASSIUM IODIDE; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 84862076573     PISSN: 03786323     EISSN: 09733922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0378-6323.95472     Document Type: Review

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