Drug eruptions in the elderly

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 43-48

  Carneiro, Sueli Coelho da Silva ^a   Azevedo e Silva, Melissa Chaves ^a   Ramos e Silva, Marcia ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORPHENIRAMINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DEXCHLORPHENIRAMINE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; DIURETIC AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN DERIVATIVE; HYDRALAZINE; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; HYDROXYZINE; INDOMETACIN; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE; LAXATIVE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PIROXICAM; PROMETHAZINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SULFONAMIDE; SULFONYLUREA DERIVATIVE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; AGING; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG SAFETY; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HUMAN; LICHENOID ERUPTION; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; POLYPHARMACY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL DISORDER; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SKIN PERMEABILITY; URTICARIA; VASCULITIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DRUG ERUPTIONS; DRUG INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; POLYPHARMACY;

EID: 78649915290     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2010.07.006     Document Type: Article

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