Severe erythema multiforme responding to interferon alfa

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 54, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Geraminejad, Pedram ^a   Walling, Hobart W ^a,b   Voigt, Michael D ^a   Stone, Mary Seabury ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; CYCLOSPORIN; ETRETIN; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2A; PREDNISONE; RIBAVIRIN; VALACICLOVIR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DERMATITIS; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN NECROSIS; VIRUS TITRATION;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; HUMANS; INTERFERON-ALPHA; MALE; REMISSION INDUCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 30944439656     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2005.04.042     Document Type: Article

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