Experience with toxic epidermal necrolysis treated in a burn center

Journal of Burn Care and Rehabilitation

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 30-33

  Yarbrough III, Dabney R ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; CARBAMAZEPINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PHENYTOIN; SULFONAMIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BURN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; SKIN ALLOGRAFT; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; WOUND CARE; XENOGRAFT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BURN UNITS; BURNS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS, TOXIC; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SOUTH CAROLINA; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030050086     PISSN: 02738481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004630-199601000-00008     Document Type: Article

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