Toxic epidermal necrolysis in an irradiated patient treated with a nanocrystalline silver dressing

Case Reports in Dermatology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 72-75

  Vern Gross, Tamara Z ^a   Kowal Vern, Areta ^b   Poulakidas, Stathis J ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH   (United States)

^b Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticonvulsants; Nanocrystalline silver dressing; Radiotherapy; Toxic epidermal necrolysis syndrome

Indexed keywords

ACTICOAT; ANTACID AGENT; BACITRACIN ZINC; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCIUM; CLINDAMYCIN; CREATININE; D DIMER; DEXAMETHASONE; ENOXAPARIN; FIBRINOGEN; FLUCONAZOLE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LEVOFLOXACIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NANOCRYSTALLINE SILVER; NITROGEN; PHENYTOIN; PHOSPHORUS; PREALBUMIN; SILVER NANOPARTICLE; SODIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASOPHIL; BLISTER; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSURIA; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; ERYTHEMA; FACE EDEMA; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEADACHE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MASTECTOMY; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MONOCYTE; MOUTH ULCER; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ODYNOPHAGIA; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; PHOTOPHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INDUCED EMESIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEIZURE; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN EXFOLIATION; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SPINE METASTASIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THRUSH; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT DURATION; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; VERTIGO; WOUND CARE; WOUND DRESSING; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 84860758044     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16626567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000337755     Document Type: Article

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