Efficacy and safety of diphenylcyclopropenone alone or in combination with anthralin in the treatment of chronic extensive alopecia areata: A retrospective case series

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 640-650

  Durdu, Murat ^a   Özcan, Deren ^a   Baba, Mete ^a   Seçkin, Deniz ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

alopecia areata; alopecia totalis; alopecia universalis; anthralin; cignolin; diphencyprone; diphenylcyclopropenone; dithranol; folliculitis; Key words adverse effects

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; DIPHENCYPRONE; DITHRANOL; GARLIC EXTRACT; MINOXIDIL; PRESCRIPTION DRUG; SQUARIC ACID DIBUTYL ESTER; CYCLOPROPANE DERIVATIVE; CYTOKINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALOPECIA AREATA; ARTICLE; BLISTER; CASE STUDY; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC EXTENSIVE ALOPECIA AREATA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATITIS; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG TOLERANCE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EYEBROW; EYELASH; FEMALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; FOLLICULITIS; FOLLOW UP; HAIR GROWTH; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MALE; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RECURRENCE RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCALP HAIR; SCALP PRURITUS; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TOPICAL TREATMENT; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; APOPTOSIS; CD4 CD8 RATIO; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG ERUPTIONS; DRUG SCREENING; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SECRETION (PROCESS); SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALOPECIA AREATA; ANTHRALIN; APOPTOSIS; CD4-CD8 RATIO; CHILD; CYCLOPROPANES; CYTOKINES; DRUG ERUPTIONS; DRUG EVALUATION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLICULITIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERPIGMENTATION; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRURITUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929506385     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: 10976787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2015.01.008     Document Type: Article

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