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Infections

Fractional carbon dioxide laser assisted delivery of topical tazarotene versus topical tioconazole in the treatment of onychomycosis

Essam Bakr Abd El-AalFaculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
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Hamed Mohamed AbdoFaculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
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Shady Mahmoud IbrahimFaculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, EgyptCorrespondence[email protected] [email protected]
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Mostafa Taha EldestawyFaculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
Pages 277-282 | Received 02 Jun 2018, Accepted 26 Jul 2018, Published online: 28 Sep 2018

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