Neonatal erythroderma: Differential diagnosis and management of the 'red baby'

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 186-191

  Hoeger, P H ^a   Harper, J I ^a  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; EXFOLIATIN; VANCOMYCIN;

CANDIDIASIS; DISORDERS OF CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; ERYTHRODERMA; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID DEFICIENCY; ICHTHYOSIS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION; MASTOCYTOSIS; METABOLIC DISORDER; PITYRIASIS RUBRA PILARIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; REVIEW; SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS; SKIN BIOPSY; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME;

EID: 0031880742     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.79.2.186     Document Type: Review

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