Lichenoid drug eruption with HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (fluvastatin and lovastatin) [2]

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 229-230

  Sebök, Bela ^a   Tóth, Margit ^b   Anga, Bela ^c   Harangi, Ferenc ^a   Schneider, Imre ^d  

^a Dorozsmai and Co Medical Ltd   (Hungary)

^b City Hospital   (Hungary)

^c Hungarian Academy of Sciences   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; FLUINDOSTATIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; MEVINOLIN; MOMETASONE FUROATE; PERINDOPRIL;

ADULT; BURNING SENSATION; CASE REPORT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG ERUPTION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; LICHENOID ERUPTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SKIN BIOPSY;

DRUG ERUPTIONS; FATTY ACIDS, MONOUNSATURATED; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; INDOLES; LICHEN PLANUS; LOVASTATIN; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 19244366121     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00015550310006851     Document Type: Letter

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