Unidentified drugs in traditional medications causing toxic epidermal necrolysis: A developing country experience

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 510-515

  Das, Kishore Kumar ^a   Khondokar, Sazzad ^a   Rahman, Ashrafur ^a   Chakraborty, Anjana ^a  

^a DHAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIULCER AGENT; ASCORBIC ACID; AZITHROMYCIN; CARBAMAZEPINE; CEFRADINE; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CHLOROQUINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HERBACEOUS AGENT; SERUM ALBUMIN; STEROID; SULFADIAZINE SILVER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALOPECIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORNEA DISEASE; CRYSTALLOID; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYDROCOLLOID DRESSING; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOPIGMENTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCAR FORMATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPTICEMIA; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; WOUND DRESSING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BANGLADESH; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATERIA MEDICA; MIDDLE AGED; PLANT PREPARATIONS; POVERTY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; STEVENS-JOHNSON SYNDROME; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896488250     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: 13654632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ijd.12253     Document Type: Article

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