Treatment |
Total Regression (including those with residual scarring) |
Effective, but disease tends to eventually progress or recur |
Not Effective |
Topical Corticosteroid |
Jones, Khan, van de Kerkhof,
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|
Owings, Palmer, White, Roman |
Intralesional Corticosteroid |
Baughman
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|
White |
Systemic Corticosteroid |
|
Ferreiro |
|
Combined Topical and Intralesional Corticosteroids |
Kaur |
|
|
Combined Topical and Systemic Corticosteroids |
Timms (1988), Timms (1991) |
Timms (1988) |
|
Topical Nystatin |
|
Silverman |
Palmer, White |
Oral Nystatin |
|
|
Palmer, White |
Antibiotics (unspecified) |
|
|
Ferreiro |
Oral griseofulvin |
Tamaki |
|
|
2% Fusidic acid |
|
Mahler |
Roman, van der Kerkhof |
Systemic chemotherapy |
|
Fogarty |
|
Low dose radiation therapy |
|
Fogarty |
|
Surgical excision, CO2 laser, electrocoagulation, cryotherapy |
Roman |
Ferreiro, Fogarty, Timms (1991), White |
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Tracheostomy |
|
Ferrerio, Fogarty |
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