A clinical case of drug hypersensitivity syndrome with phenobarbital administration: Drug-induced rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms or lupus-like sydrome? [1]

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 339-

  Giordano, Nicola ^b,c   Amendola, A ^b   Papakostas, P ^b   Cipolli, F ^b   Rollo, F ^b   Martini, G ^b   Ciacci, G ^a   Nuti, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b Endocrine Metabolic Sciences and Biochemistry ^*  (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NIMODIPINE; PHENOBARBITAL;

AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANEMIA; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ATAXIC APHASIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EOSINOPHILIA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FACE EDEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMIPARESIS; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUPUS LIKE SYNDROME; MEASLES LIKE RASH; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICONVULSANTS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EOSINOPHILIA; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; EXANTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; PHENOBARBITAL; SYNDROME;

EID: 34249791208     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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