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Desoximetasone 0.0005 MG/MG Topical Gel — RxCUI 315059

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 315059 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 3 FDA products 11 package NDCs Snapshot Jul 14, 2026

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What you’re looking at: the standardized identity of one medicine, as the U.S. drug-data system sees it. Below — every FDA-listed product, package code, price benchmark, and billing code that maps to it.

🗂️ Key Facts

RxCUI315059
Official nameDesoximetasone 0.0005 MG/MG Topical Gel
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asdesoximetasone 0.05 % Topical Gel; desoximetasone 0.5 MG per GM Topical Gel
FDA products mapped3
Package NDCs mapped11
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Desoximetasone 0.0005 MG/MG Topical Gel Connects

One RxCUI never lives alone. Follow the path from the raw ingredient down to the exact strength-and-form concepts FDA products carry — every stop is a real RxNorm concept with its own identifier. Hover or focus any chip for what it means.
This page's concept Desoximetasone 0.0005 MG/MG Topical Gel RxCUI 315059

Every web starts here: one RxCUI, one fixed meaning in the RxNorm vocabulary.

  1. Ingredients 1

    The active substance itself — no strength, form, or brand attached yet.

    • Desoximetasone 3255
  2. Brand names 1

    The same medicine's trade names. A brand name alone says nothing about strength or form.

    • Topicort 220345
  3. Dose forms 6

    The ingredient poured into a form — tablet, solution, cream — still without one fixed strength.

    • Desoximetasone Topical Gel 385104
    • Desoximetasone Topical Product 1154232
    • Desoximetasone Topical Gel [Topicort] 370385
    • Topicort Topical Product 1177999
    • Topical Gel 346286
    • Topical Product 1151122
  4. Clinical & branded drugs 3

    Ingredient + strength + dose form. These are the concepts real FDA products actually carry.

    • Desoximetasone 0.0005 MG/MG 328232
    • Desoximetasone 0.0005 MG/MG Topical Gel [Topicort] 94346
    • Desoximetasone 0.0005 MG/MG [Topicort] 562923

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 11 of 11 stored related concepts drawn.
These are official RxNorm vocabulary relationships — how concepts name and organize the same medicine. They do not establish therapeutic equivalence or substitutability: two concepts appearing in one web is never a statement that products can be swapped.

🔀 Generic ⇄ Brand Crosswalk

The same medicine has an unbranded (generic) identity and one or more brand-name identities — each with its own RxCUI. This is a naming relationship in RxNorm, not a statement that any two products are substitutable.

Generic (Clinical) Concepts

  • Desoximetasone 0.0005 MG/MG SCDC · 328232
  • Desoximetasone Topical Gel SCDF · 385104
  • Desoximetasone Topical Product SCDG · 1154232

Brand-Name Concepts

  • Desoximetasone 0.0005 MG/MG Topical Gel [Topicort] SBD · 94346
  • Desoximetasone 0.0005 MG/MG [Topicort] SBDC · 562923
  • Desoximetasone Topical Gel [Topicort] SBDF · 370385
  • Topicort Topical Product SBDG · 1177999
  • Topicort BN · 220345

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

3 products · 11 package NDCs
11 package NDCs map to RxCUI 315059 in the current snapshot — up to 50 per page. Each linked NDC opens its full package page.
Package NDC Package Brand / generic name Labeler Marketing start
51672-1261-01 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (51672-1261-1) / 15 g in 1 TUBE Desoximetasone Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc. 1998-07-14
51672-1261-02 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (51672-1261-2) / 30 g in 1 TUBE Desoximetasone Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc. 1998-07-14
51672-1261-03 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (51672-1261-3) / 60 g in 1 TUBE Desoximetasone Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc. 1998-07-14
51672-1270-01 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (51672-1270-1) / 15 g in 1 TUBE Desoximetasone Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc. 1990-11-30
51672-1270-02 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (51672-1270-2) / 30 g in 1 TUBE Desoximetasone Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc. 1990-11-30
51672-1270-03 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (51672-1270-3) / 60 g in 1 TUBE Desoximetasone Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc. 1990-11-30
51672-1270-07 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (51672-1270-7) / 100 g in 1 TUBE Desoximetasone Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc. 1990-11-30
51672-1271-01 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (51672-1271-1) / 15 g in 1 TUBE Desoximetasone Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc. 1990-11-30
51672-1271-02 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (51672-1271-2) / 30 g in 1 TUBE Desoximetasone Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc. 1990-11-30
51672-1271-03 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (51672-1271-3) / 60 g in 1 TUBE Desoximetasone Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc. 1990-11-30
51672-1271-07 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (51672-1271-7) / 100 g in 1 TUBE Desoximetasone Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc. 1990-11-30
Observed labelers: Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc. (11) — this is the FDA-listed mapping footprint, not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.

🗃️ Sources & Limits

Atlas generation902fddb9-e9c1-4004-bf4c-dba4d51037c7
openFDA export observedJul 14, 2026
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Methodology2026-07-full-catalog-v1
  • A shared RxCUI does not prove interchangeability. Products mapped to the same concept are not thereby equivalent or substitutable — equivalence is a separate, product-level determination.
  • Listing here does not establish approval or coverage. Appearing in this snapshot is a data observation, not an FDA approval status or a payer coverage decision.
  • Missing data never means zero. A silent dataset (no price, no billing code, no utilization) means no observation — not that the real-world value is zero.
  • Counts describe the mapping footprint. Product, package, and labeler counts are the FDA-listed mapping footprint in this snapshot — not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.
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