Subacute lichenoid eruption due to L-thyroxine overdosage [4]

Dermatology

Volumn 206, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 346-347

  Kaur, Sukhjot ^a   Bhalla, Mala ^a   Thami, Gurvinder P ^a  

^a GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

L Thyroxine; Lichenoid eruption; Overdosage

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; GOLD SALT; LEVOTHYROXINE; PENICILLAMINE; SPIRONOLACTONE; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT;

ANGINA PECTORIS; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DESQUAMATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTION TEST; HALF LIFE TIME; HEADACHE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART PALPITATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTOXICATION; LATENT PERIOD; LETTER; LICHENOID ERUPTION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NERVOUSNESS; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PSORIASIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN BIOPSY; SWEATING; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREMOR; URINALYSIS; VOMITING;

CHILD; DRUG ERUPTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LICHENOID ERUPTIONS; OVERDOSE; THYROXINE;

EID: 0037640937     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000069952     Document Type: Letter

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