Colitis may be part of the antiepileptic drug hypersensitivity syndrome

Epilepsia

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1780-1783

  Eland, Ingo A ^a   Dofferhoff, Anton S M ^b   Vink, Rob ^c   Zondervan, Pieter E ^a   Stricker, Bruno H Ch ^a,d  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b CANISIUS WILHELMINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c Departments of Internal Medicine   (Netherlands)

^d Drug Safety Unit   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carbamazepine; Colitis; Drug hypersensitivity; Rash

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLITIS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SAFETY; EOSINOPHILIA; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER FUNCTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032764034     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1999.tb01598.x     Document Type: Article

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