Repeated episodes of fixed eruption 3 months after discontinuing pegylated interferon-α-2b plus ribavirin combination therapy in a patient with chronic hepatitis C virus infection

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Sato, M ^b   Sueki, H ^a,b   Iijima, M ^c  

^a Showa University Fujigaoka Hospital ^*  (Japan)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY FUJIGAOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE BESYLATE; CLONIDINE; DOXAZOSIN MESYLATE; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2B; PREDNISOLONE; RIBAVIRIN; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLISTER; CASE REPORT; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; EXOCYTOSIS; FEVER; FIXED DRUG ERUPTION; HEALING; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIMB; LIP; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION TEST; MALE; PENIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN NECROSIS;

AGED; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DRUG ERUPTIONS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INTERFERON ALFA-2B; MALE; RIBAVIRIN;

EID: 72549087160     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: 13652230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2009.03560.x     Document Type: Article

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