Hypersensitivity reactions to corticosteroids

Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 273-279

  Torres, Maria J ^a   Canto, Gabriela ^b  

^a HOSPITAL REGIONAL UNIVERSITARIO DE MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO INFANTA LEONOR   (Spain)

Author keywords

corticosteroids; diagnosis; hypersensitivity; immunoglobulin E; systemic; T cells; topical

Indexed keywords

BECLOMETASONE; BETAMETHASONE; BUDESONIDE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; FLUTICASONE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 4; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MOMETASONE FUROATE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; TRIAMCINOLONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

BASOPHIL; CONTACT DERMATITIS; COUGHING; CROSS REACTION; ECZEMA; ERYTHEMA; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION TEST; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; NOSE CONGESTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PRURITUS; RASH; REVIEW; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN TEST; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; T LYMPHOCYTE; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; URTICARIA; BLOOD; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; SKIN TESTS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 77954657246     PISSN: 15284050     EISSN: 14736322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACI.0b013e32833b1f34     Document Type: Review

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