EOSINOPHILIC PUSTULAR FOLLICULITIS - SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT WITH INTERFERON-ALPHA

Authors
MOHR C SCHUTTE B HILDEBRAND A LUGER TA KOLDE G
Citation
C. Mohr et al., EOSINOPHILIC PUSTULAR FOLLICULITIS - SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT WITH INTERFERON-ALPHA, Dermatology, 191(3), 1995, pp. 257-259
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Dermatology & Venereal Diseases
Journal title
Dermatology → ACNP
ISSN journal
10188665
Volume
191
Issue
3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
257 - 259
Database
ISI
SICI code
1018-8665(1995)191:3<257:EPF-ST>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
Eosinophilic pustular folliculitis (Ofuji's disease) is a rare skin di sease of unknown etiology characterized by infiltrated circinate plaqu es with sterile follicular pustules in primarily seborrheic areas. Sev eral therapeutic regimens have been reported to control the disease wi th inconsistent results. We here report on a patient with Ofuji's dise ase, who was successfully treated with interferon-alpha 2b.