Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms and severe involvement of digestive tract: Description of two cases

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 207-209

  Do Pham, G ^a   Charachon, A ^b   Duong, T A ^a   Thille, A W ^b   Benhaiem, N ^b   Bagot, M ^a   Chosidow, O ^a   Roujeau, J C ^a   Wolkenstein, P ^a   Valeyrie Allanore, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

^b HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; GANCICLOVIR; LAMOTRIGINE; LEFLUNOMIDE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DRESS SYNDROME; DYSPHAGIA; EPILEPSY; FACE EDEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEMATURIA; HEPATITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LETTER; LYMPHADENOPATHY; NEPHRITIS; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; RASH; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN DEFECT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; ANTICONVULSANTS; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; DRUG ERUPTIONS; EOSINOPHILIA; ESOPHAGITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOXAZOLES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAZINES;

EID: 79959686345     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: 13652133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2011.10293.x     Document Type: Letter

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