Purpuric eruption in a patient treated with systemic steroids

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Russo, Jacqueline J ^a   Rusiecki, Ronald S ^a   Vincek, Vladimir ^a   Burt, Martha J ^a   Rand, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTEREMIA; BLISTER; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DERMIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LUNG; MENINGITIS; MICROSCOPY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURPURIC RASH; SEPTIC SHOCK; SKIN; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; THIGH;

EID: 76749169832     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2009.364-b     Document Type: Article

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