Successful treatment of lichen planus with adalimumab

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 385-386

  Holló, Peter ^a   Szakonyi, Jozsef ^a   Kiss, Dorottya ^a   Jokai, Hajnalka ^a   Horváth, Attila ^a   Kárpáti, Sarolta ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; ETRETIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; PSORALEN; STEROID;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HAIR LOSS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; LICHEN PLANUS; LICHENOID ERUPTION; PAPULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PSORIASIS; PUVA; REMISSION; SKIN MANIFESTATION;

ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LICHEN PLANUS; SKIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84863490552     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-1249     Document Type: Letter

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