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Evaluating dosing accuracy and galenic dispersion quality in Hospital-Based pediatric spironolactone oral suspension

Roxanne Desquines1, Romain Gallissot2, Caroline Viard1

  • 1University Hospital Centre Toulouse, Department of Pharmacy, France.

European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics : Official Journal of Arbeitsgemeinschaft Fur Pharmazeutische Verfahrenstechnik E.V
|May 10, 2025
PubMed

Keywords:
CakingDispersion qualityOral suspensionsPediatric formulationSpironolactone

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