Approach to the hospitalized patient with targetoid lesions

Dermatologic Therapy

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 196-206

  Hughey, Lauren C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Erythema multiforme; Hospitalized patient; Stevens Johnson syndrome; Targetoid

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC EDEMA OF INFANCY; ARTICLE; BLISTER; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECTHYMA; ECTHYMA GANGRENSUM; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FIXED DRUG ERUPTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; SKIN DISEASE; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; TARGETOID LESION; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; VASCULITIS;

ALGORITHMS; DERMATOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS, TOXIC; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SKIN; STEVENS-JOHNSON SYNDROME;

EID: 79952756937     PISSN: 13960296     EISSN: 15298019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8019.2011.01395.x     Document Type: Article

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