Post-implantation erythema in 3 patients and a review of reticular telangiectatic erythema

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 280-288

  Aneja, Savina ^a   Taylor, James S ^b   Billings, Steven D ^b   Honari, Golara ^b   Sood, Apra ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

implantable device; pacemaker; patch test; post implantation erythema; prosthesis; reticular telangiectatic erythema

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOENDOTHELIOMATOSIS; ARM PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATCH TEST; PATIENT INFORMATION; RETICULAR TELANGIECTATIC ERYTHEMA; SKIN BIOPSY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELBOW PROSTHESIS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATCH TESTS; SPINAL CORD; TELANGIECTASIS;

EID: 79954549859     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: 16000536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0536.2011.01887.x     Document Type: Article

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