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2007, Number 5

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Med Int Mex 2007; 23 (5)

Doctor: how and how much of this medicine must I apply?

Poletti VED, Muñoz SMR

Language: Spanish
References: 13
Page: 441-446
PDF size: 144.62 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Nowadays there are different products used to treat skin disease, nevertheless there is not a systematized method for the right dosage. This might lead to unsuccessful treatments and patient-physician frustration. Is important for physicians to be aware of giving detailed and practical instructions on how to apply a topical medication. Equally important is to be well familiarized with the classic and new procedures reported in literature to calculate the right amount and the most beneficial way to use a topic medication. We have to understand that the more precise the recipe is, the better the results that we will obtain.


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