Effective prescribing in steroid allergy: Controversies and cross-reactions

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 287-294

  Browne, Fiona ^a   Wilkinson, S Mark ^a  

^a LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; BUDESONIDE; CORTICOSTEROID; ESTROGEN; HYDROCORTISONE BUTYRATE; HYDROCORTISONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; PREDNISOLONE; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; STEROID; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; TESTOSTERONE UNDECANOATE; TIXOCORTOL PIVALATE;

ACUTE GENERALIZED EXANTHEMATOUS PUSTULOSIS; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUTOIMMUNE ESTROGEN DERMATITIS; AUTOIMMUNE PROGESTERONE DERMATITIS; BLISTER; BRONCHOSPASM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTACT ALLERGY; CONTACT DERMATITIS; COUGHING; CROSS REACTION; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DERMATITIS; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ECZEMA; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURPURA; STEROID ALLERGY; STOMATITIS; URTICARIA;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; CROSS REACTIONS; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; DERMATOLOGIC AGENTS; DRUG ERUPTIONS; DRUG INTERACTIONS; EUROPE; HUMANS; PATCH TESTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79954461030     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2010.11.007     Document Type: Article

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