"Acitretin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An oral retinoid effective in the treatment of psoriasis. It is the major metabolite of ETRETINATE with the advantage of a much shorter half-life when compared with etretinate.
| Descriptor ID |
D017255
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.455.326.271.665.202.495.050 D02.455.849.131.495.050 D23.767.261.700.050
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Acitretin" by people in Profiles.
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Acitretin therapy is effective for psoriasis associated with human immunodeficiency virus infection. Arch Dermatol. 1997 Jun; 133(6):711-5.