Stevens-Johnson syndrome following concurrent phenytoin and holocranial radiotherapy

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 259-260

  Goyal, Shikha ^a   Biswas, Ahitagni ^a   Puri, Tarun ^a   Mohanti, Bidhu K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DIURETIC AGENT; LAMOTRIGINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; STEROID; TRASTUZUMAB; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DESQUAMATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTICONVULSANTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PHENYTOIN; RADIOTHERAPY; SEIZURES; STEVENS-JOHNSON SYNDROME;

EID: 76649098859     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02841860903246581     Document Type: Letter

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