Combination therapy with zinc gluconate and PUVA for alopecia areata totalis: An adjunctive but crucial role of zinc supplementation

Dermatologic Therapy

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 235-238

  Lux Battistelli, Christine ^a  

^a Polyclinique des Trois Frontières   (France)

Author keywords

alopecia areata; PUVA; zinc supplementation

Indexed keywords

CIPROXOLAMINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DERMATOLOGICAL AGENT; GLUCONATE ZINC; METALLOTHIONEIN; METHOTREXATE; PSORALEN; SULFUR AMINO ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITAMIN D; ZINC TRANSPORTER; GLUCONIC ACID;

ACNE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALOPECIA AREATA; ALOPECIA AREATA TOTALIS; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAIR GROWTH; HAIR LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; PUVA; SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL; COMBINATION DRUG THERAPY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETREATMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALOPECIA AREATA; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GLUCONATES; HUMANS; MALE; PUVA THERAPY; RECURRENCE; RETREATMENT;

EID: 84937739129     PISSN: 13960296     EISSN: 15298019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dth.12215     Document Type: Article

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