Candidal vulvovaginitis in girls: clotrimazole as the drug of choice
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Three-day clotrimazole treatment in candidal vulvovaginitis.
The accepted modern practice is to treat each sexually transmitted disease with the shortest possible course of treatment consistent with success. In candidal vulvovaginitis, six days is the minimum period that has so far been found to be successful, but we report here a further reduction to three days. Patients were given two clotrimazole pessaries nightly for three consecutive nights; the ove...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Council
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2658-5790,2079-701X
DOI: 10.21518/2079-701x-2019-13-10-14