Chloroquine: consideration of maximum daily dose (3.5 mg/kg ideal body weight) prevents retinopathy.
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Chloroquine Retinopathy Ideal body weight Dr. F.R. Ochsendorf, Department of Dermatology, University Hospital, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, D-60590 Frankfurt/M. (Germany) In this journal, Lipsker et al. [1] emphasized the efficacy of the combination of chloroquine and quinacrine for the treatment of resistant cutaneous lupus erythematosus. 20% of their patients (3/15), however, developed abnormalities ...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Dermatology
دوره 192 4 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1996