Adult female with rash on lower extremities

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Lung, Derrick ^a   Lynch, Kara ^b   Agrawal, Suneil ^b   Armenian, Patil ^a   Banh, Kenny ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; LEVAMISOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CONTAMINATION; DRUG URINE LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURPURA; RASH; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN MANIFESTATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; VASCULITIS; VASCULOPATHIC PURPURA; ANAPHYLACTOID PURPURA; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; LEG;

ADULT; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; DRUG CONTAMINATION; EXANTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; LEVAMISOLE; NEUTROPENIA; PURPURA, SCHOENLEIN-HENOCH;

EID: 79952010178     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.05.009     Document Type: Short Survey

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