Allopurinol hypersensitivity syndrome with a lethal outcome;Letalt forlobende allopurinolhypersensitivetssyndrom

Ugeskrift for Laeger

Volumn 160, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1179-1180

  Kluger, Elzbieta ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; ANTIGOUT AGENT;

AGED; ALLERGIC VASCULITIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG FEVER; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EPIDERMOLYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GOUT; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; DRUG EFFECT; FATALITY; IMMUNOLOGY; KIDNEY; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS;

AGED; ALLOPURINOL; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS, TOXIC; FATAL OUTCOME; GOUT; GOUT SUPPRESSANTS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; VASCULITIS, ALLERGIC CUTANEOUS;

EID: 0032536235     PISSN: 00415782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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