Bullous drug eruption treated with amputation: A challenging case of vancomycin-induced linear IgA disease

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 132, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1289-1290

  Bitman, Leslie M ^a   Grossman, Marc E ^a   Ross, Herbert ^b  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^b White Plains Hospital Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLAVULANATE POTASSIUM; ENALAPRIL MALEATE; FUROSEMIDE; INSULIN; TICARCILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BONE BIOPSY; BULLOUS SKIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEPOSITION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEG ULCER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMPUTATION; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG ERUPTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN DISEASES, VESICULOBULLOUS; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 0029904074     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.132.11.1289     Document Type: Article

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