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Treatment of kerions
P J Honig1, G L Caputo, J J Leyden
1Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Pediatric Dermatology
|March 1, 1994
Abstract:
Therapy for kerions was evaluated by randomly assigning 30 patients to one of four treatment groups: group A griseofulvin, group B griseofulvin plus erythromycin, group C griseofulvin plus prednisone, and group D griseofulvin, erythromycin, and prednisone. Data indicate that antibiotic and steroid therapy, in addition to griseofulvin, may reduce scaling and pruritus, but does not reduce the time it takes for kerions to flatten.