[The use of difluocortolone valerate in various dermatoses]

Abstract

Diflucortolone valerate was clinically investigated as a fatty ointment in 30 dermatological patients. Although this form of application is a special presentation for the treatment of very dry dermatoses, patients with not so dry and weeping dermatoses were also treated in this trial, the object being to include the role played by the vehicle in the results of therapy. Very good to good results were achieved in 80% of the cases treated, while the result was observed to be poor in only 10% of the cases. This latter percentage is comprised for the greater part of patients who had previously been treated with other corticoids and of patients with weeping dermatoses.