Erythema nodosum - A review of an uncommon panniculitis

Dermatology Online Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Blake, Tristan ^a   Manahan, Melissa ^a,b   Rodins, Karl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Queensland Institute of Dermatology and Veracity Clinical Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DAPSONE; HEPARINOID; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; INDOMETACIN; METHOTREXATE; NAPROXEN; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; POTASSIUM IODIDE; PREDNISONE; SULFONAMIDE; THALIDOMIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR INHIBITOR; DERMATOLOGICAL AGENT;

CLINICAL FEATURE; CUTANEOUS VASCULITIDE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; MALAISE; NODULAR VASCULITIS; PANNICULITIS; PATHOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TUBERCULOSIS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VASCULITIS; YERSINIOSIS; PATHOLOGY; SKIN;

DERMATOLOGIC AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; HUMANS; PANNICULITIS; SEX FACTORS; SKIN;

EID: 84898919253     PISSN: 10872108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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