The dermal type of erythema multiforme: A rare variant of Stevens- Johnson syndrome or cases of clinical misclassification?

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 217-218

  Hering, Olaf ^a   Mockenhaupt, Maja ^a   Rzany, Berthold ^b   Schröder, Werner ^a   Schöpf, Erwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

epidermal type; erythema exsudativum multiforme majus; histopathology; multiforme like skin eruptions

Indexed keywords

ATTAPULGITE; BETASEMID; BISOPROLOL FUMARATE; CLEMASTINE FUMARATE; DOXEPIN; EOSIN; FUROSEMIDE; LEVOTHYROXINE SODIUM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; NIFEDIPINE; PENBUTOLOL; POLIDOCANOL; PREDNISOLONE; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG ERUPTION; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; LABORATORY TEST; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SLEEP DISORDER; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; THYROIDECTOMY; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; STEVENS-JOHNSON SYNDROME;

EID: 0030898730     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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