A case of type IV hypersensitivity to topiramate and carbamazepine

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 161-162

  Schiavino, D ^a   Nucera, E ^a   Buonomo, A ^a   Musumeci, S ^a   Pollastrini, E ^a   Roncallo, C ^a   Lombardo, C ^a   Alonzi, C ^a   Pecora, V ^a   Corradini, C ^a   De Pasquale, T ^a   Patriarca, Giampiero ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carbamazepine; Delayed type allergy; Drug eruption; Topiramate

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CITICOLINE; CLONAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; LAMOTRIGINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PRIMIDONE; TIAGABINE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EOSINOPHILIA; ERYTHEMA; EXFOLIATIVE DERMATITIS; FACE EDEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION TYPE IV; LYMPHADENOPATHY; PARESTHESIA; PATCH TEST; PHOTOSENSITIVITY DISORDER; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRICK TEST; PRURITUS; RASH; SEIZURE; SKIN PIGMENTATION; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME;

ANTICONVULSANTS; CARBAMAZEPINE; DRUG ERUPTIONS; FEMALE; FRUCTOSE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATCH TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES;

EID: 20244390174     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-1873.2005.0548c.x     Document Type: Article

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