Dress syndrome with mild manifestations as a diagnostic and therapeutic problem: Case report

Acta Clinica Croatica

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 479-484

  Artukovic, Marinko ^a   Kuštelega, Josipa ^a   Lugovic Mihic, Liborija ^b  

^a University Department of Internal Medicine   (Croatia)

^b SESTRE MILOSRDNICE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Drug eruptions etiology; Drug eruptions therapy; Drug eruptions diagnosis; Drug hypersensitivity prevention and control

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CIPROFLOXACIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MEBENDAZOLE; PENTOXIFYLLINE; THALIDOMIDE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD DYSCRASIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRESS SYNDROME; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; EOSINOPHILIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY INJURY; LEUKOCYTURIA; LIVER INJURY; LYMPHADENITIS; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; PHARYNGITIS; PYELONEPHRITIS; SEPSIS; SIDE EFFECT; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT DURATION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG ERUPTION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; SYNDROME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CIPROFLOXACIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG ERUPTIONS; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; SYNDROME;

EID: 80052802213     PISSN: 03539466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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