Diaper dermatitis: A review and update

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 472-479

  Ravanfar, Parisa ^a   Wallace, Jill S ^a   Pace, Nicole C ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

diaper dermatitis; diaper rash; infantile dermatitis; pediatric dermatitis

Indexed keywords

CANDIDIASIS; CONTACT DERMATITIS; DIAPER DERMATITIS; HAND FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HUMAN; IRRITANT CONTACT DIAPER DERMATITIS; IRRITANT DERMATITIS; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; MILIARIA RUBRA; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; RASH; REVIEW; SCABIES; SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS; SKIN ALLERGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

ACRODERMATITIS; CANDIDIASIS, CUTANEOUS; DERMATITIS, SEBORRHEIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAPER RASH; FEMALE; HAND, FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MILIARIA; PSORIASIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VULVAR LICHEN SCLEROSUS; ZINC;

EID: 84864699519     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: 1531698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOP.0b013e32835585f2     Document Type: Review

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