Letter: Localized cutaneous reaction to intramuscular vitamin K in a patient with acute fatty liver of pregnancy

Dermatology Online Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 16-

  Sousa, Tatiana ^a   Hunter, Lindsey ^b   Petitt, Matthew ^b   Wilkerson, Michael George ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUTICASONE; HYDROXYZINE; PHYTOMENADIONE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; FEVER; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; HYPOPROTHROMBINEMIA; INJECTION SITE REACTION; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LOCAL SKIN REACTION; MALAISE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; PATHOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; PRURITUS; SKIN MANIFESTATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; DRUG ERUPTIONS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ECZEMA; ERYTHEMA; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPROTHROMBINEMIAS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; VITAMIN K 1; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650562572     PISSN: 10872108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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