Successful treatment of eczema coxsackium with wet wrap therapy and low-dose topical corticosteroid

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 803-804

  Johnson, Victoria K ^a   Hayman, Jennifer L ^a   McCarthy, Carol A ^a   Cardona, Ivan D ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CEFDINIR; CEFTRIAXONE; CORTICOSTEROID; HYDROCORTISONE VALERATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL SUPERINFECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHICKENPOX; DEHYDRATION; DERMATOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECZEMA; ECZEMA COXSACKIUM; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; INFANT; KAPOSI VARICELLIFORM ERUPTION; LABORATORY TEST; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; OTITIS MEDIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RASH; SKIN DEFECT; VESICULOBULLOUS RASH; VIRUS CULTURE; WET WRAP THERAPY; BANDAGE; CHILD; COXSACKIEVIRUS INFECTIONS; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENTEROVIRUS A; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; SKIN DISEASES, VIRAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWINS; VIROLOGY;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; BANDAGES; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COXSACKIEVIRUS INFECTIONS; ECZEMA; ENTEROVIRUS A, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; SKIN DISEASES, VIRAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC;

EID: 84923224192     PISSN: 22132198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaip.2014.07.018     Document Type: Article

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