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Itraconazole: an incidental clearance of recalcitrant warts?

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  1. Dermatology Department, School of Medicine, Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon

    Rana El Khoury, Roland Tomb & Farid Stephan

  2. Hotel Dieu de France University Hospital and medical center, Beirut, Lebanon

    Rana El Khoury, Roland Tomb & Farid Stephan

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Clinical characteristics of the patients with different treatment modalities and outcome.

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El Khoury, R., Tomb, R. & Stephan, F. Itraconazole: an incidental clearance of recalcitrant warts?. Eur J Dermatol 28, 264–266 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1684/ejd.2018.3232

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