Absence of re-epithelialization in a fatal case of toxic epidermal necrolysis: Is hyperbilirubinemia a culprit? [7]

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 107-109

  Kamada, Noriaki ^a   Utani, Atsushi ^b   Yoneyama, Kei ^b   Kobayashi, Takashi ^b   Momota, Yutaka ^b   Matsumoto, Fumiaki ^b   Nakada, Takaaki ^b   Hirasawa, Hiroyuki ^b   Shinkai, Hiroshi ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BILIRUBIN; DEXAMETHASONE; DIPYRONE; FIBRAST; LEUCINE; RECOMBINANT FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; STEROID;

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ANAMNESIS; EPITHELIZATION; ERYTHEMA; FEVER; FREEZE DRYING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; KERATINOCYTE; LETTER; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; DIPYRONE; EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS, TOXIC; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; MIDDLE AGED; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 12444323548     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.141.1.107     Document Type: Letter

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