Successful Treatment of Facial Acne Fulminans: Antimicrobial Agents and Oral Prednisolone as Promising Regimes

Acne fulminans (AF), also known as acne maligna, is a rare painful ulcerative form of acne with an abrupt onset and systemic symptoms. Its incidence appears to be decreasing, possibly because of earlier and better treatment of acne. This report highlights a case on a necrotizing facial wound due to...

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Autores principales: Siadat, Amir Hossein, Bostakian, Anis, Abtahi-Naeini, Bahareh, Shahbazi, Masoom
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5385906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28428896
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/7092910
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author Siadat, Amir Hossein
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Shahbazi, Masoom
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description Acne fulminans (AF), also known as acne maligna, is a rare painful ulcerative form of acne with an abrupt onset and systemic symptoms. Its incidence appears to be decreasing, possibly because of earlier and better treatment of acne. This report highlights a case on a necrotizing facial wound due to AF that was successfully treated with oral prednisolone and antimicrobial medication.
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spelling pubmed-53859062017-04-20 Successful Treatment of Facial Acne Fulminans: Antimicrobial Agents and Oral Prednisolone as Promising Regimes Siadat, Amir Hossein Bostakian, Anis Abtahi-Naeini, Bahareh Shahbazi, Masoom Case Rep Dermatol Med Case Report Acne fulminans (AF), also known as acne maligna, is a rare painful ulcerative form of acne with an abrupt onset and systemic symptoms. Its incidence appears to be decreasing, possibly because of earlier and better treatment of acne. This report highlights a case on a necrotizing facial wound due to AF that was successfully treated with oral prednisolone and antimicrobial medication. Hindawi 2017 2017-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5385906/ /pubmed/28428896 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/7092910 Text en Copyright © 2017 Amir Hossein Siadat et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full_unstemmed Successful Treatment of Facial Acne Fulminans: Antimicrobial Agents and Oral Prednisolone as Promising Regimes
title_short Successful Treatment of Facial Acne Fulminans: Antimicrobial Agents and Oral Prednisolone as Promising Regimes
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