Short term treatment of dermatophyte onychomycosis with terbinafine.
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Short term treatment of dermatophyte onychomycosis with terbinafine.
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of short term treatment with terbinafine on dermatophytosis. DESIGN Multicentre, randomised, double blind placebo controlled trial of 250 mg/day terbinafine for 12 weeks in dermatophyte onychomycosis. SETTING Eight dermatology centres in the United Kingdom. PATIENTS 112 patients (mean age 44, range 19-78), 99 with mycologically proved toenail infections an...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.304.6835.1151