Beclomethasone for asthma in children: effects on linear growth
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Beclomethasone in childhood asthma.
It has not been possible so far to produce a systemic corticosteroid with anti-inflammatory effect on local tissues and without glucocorticoid action. However, esterification of the potent antiinflammatory steroid betamethasone with valeric acid in the 17 carbon position produced betamethasone-17-valerate (Betnovate*), a steroid with marked topical anti-inflammatory activity. Beclomethasone dip...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1465-1858
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd001282