Phenytoin-induced DRESS with cross-reactivity to carbamazepine in a 10-year-old Indian child [11]

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 720-721

  Mendiratta, V ^a   Bhushan, P ^a  

^a LADY HARDINGE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CARBAMAZEPINE; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISOLONE;

CASE REPORT; CHILD; CROSS REACTION; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FEVER; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EOSINOPHILIA; ERYTHEMA; FACE EDEMA; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HEPATITIS; HEPATOMEGALY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPEREOSINOPHILIA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INDIAN; LETTER; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; NEPHRITIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTICONVULSANTS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CARBAMAZEPINE; CHILD; DRUG ERUPTIONS; EOSINOPHILIA; EPILEPSY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISOLONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33746117560     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: 13652230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2006.02202.x     Document Type: Letter

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