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Effective Topical Steroid Treatment

Gerald L. Severin, MD; Eugene M. Farber, MD

Arch Dermatol. 1967;95(3):302-309.

Abstract
Two patients with epidermolysis bullosa hereditaria dystrophica treated with fluocinolone acetonide 0.2% cream and observed for eight months and five months, respectively, are presented. The results, though preliminary, are encouraging with respect to the rapid healing of individual bullous lesions so treated and also to the gradual but definite increase in tolerance of friction and trauma which has been observed in the treated areas. The local use of highly concentrated corticosteroid preparations is offered as a promising therapeutic modality in management of this discouraging and disabling chronic bullous disease for which so little effective therapy has been available.

Author Affiliations
Palo Alto, Calif

From the Department of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, Calif.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Dec 21, 1966.

Reprint requests to Department of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, Calif 94304 (Dr. Severin).

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