The spectrum of cutaneous reactions associated with calcium antagonists: Areview of the literature and the possible etiopathogenic mechanisms

Dermatology Online Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 42-67

  Ioulios, Palamaras ^a   Charalampos, Michaelides ^a   Efrossini, Tsele ^a  

^a KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; CILNIDIPINE; CYTOCHROME P450 3A; DILTIAZEM; EFONIDIPINE; FELODIPINE; ISRADIPINE; LACIDIPINE; LERCANIDIPINE; MANIDIPINE; MEPIRODIPINE; MIBEFRADIL; NICARDIPINE; NIFEDIPINE; NILVADIPINE; NIMODIPINE; NISOLDIPINE; NITRENDIPINE; VERAPAMIL;

ACUTE GENERALIZED EXANTHEMATOUS PUSTULOSIS; AGE; BLOOD CELL; CELL STIMULATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG POTENCY; ERYTHROMELALGIA; EXFOLIATIVE DERMATITIS; FIBROBLAST; FLUSHING; GINGIVA HYPERPLASIA; GYNECOMASTIA; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; LEG EDEMA; MOUTH ULCER; PATHOGENESIS; PEMPHIGOID; PEMPHIGUS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY DISORDER; PSORIASIS; REVIEW; SKIN LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; TELANGIECTASIA; VASODILATATION;

EID: 3142653597     PISSN: 10872108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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