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'Erythema Multiforme associated with Phenytoin And Cranial radiation Therapy' (EMPACT) is a very rare clinic situation and classified in EM-like drug reactions. It can be easily misdiagnosed as acute urticaria or drug eruption in ED. Initial symptoms may resemble a simple skin problem, but
A selective fixed drug eruption to amoxycillin but not other betalactam drugs is reported. Penicillins are the drugs most frequently implicated in immunological adverse reactions. The most important of these are allergic reactions where an IgE-mediated mechanism is well established. Other
In the patient described here, norfloxacin induced a generalized erythematous subcorneal pustular drug eruption associated with photosensitivity and fever, proven by challenge. Any pustular eruption with fever should engender a careful search for a drug that may have caused this reaction.
We report a case of pustular drug eruption due to bacampicilin hydrochloride which developed in a patient with pustular psoriasis. The patient was a 45-year-old Japanese woman with psoriasis which started as pustular psoriasis twenty years previously. In 1994, she developed generalized erythema with
We report three cases (two adult males and a 12-year-old child) of boutonneuse fever produced by inoculation of the conjunctival mucosa (probably through accidental entry of R. conorii fluid into the eyes through rubbing or splashing). All three patients developed similar symptoms of disease,
We describe a case of toxic scarlet fever in a healthy adult with streptococcal cellulitis of the right elbow as a result of skin abrasion. The clinical picture mimicked that of drug eruption after treatment of cellulitis with antibiotics. Among the five cases of scarlet fever complicating
A 50-year-old woman presented to our dermatology clinic with pruritic lesions on her hands that had appeared 24 hours earlier. The clinical manifestations had started 24 hours after taking 100 mg of doxycycline for acute bronchitis. She had no history of allergic disease or allergic reactions to
The emergency department presents difficult cases for the consulting dermatologist. One of the most challenging is the patient who presents with fever and an erythematous rash. The differential diagnosis of the erythrodermic patient in the emergency room can include drug eruptions (DRESS syndrome),
We report a case of drug eruption caused by the crude drug Boi. A 41-year-old female patient had been diagnosed with chronic rheumatoid arthritis in the department of internal medicine. After ingestion of a decoction of the crude drug Boi for the alleviation of arthralgia, a slight fever developed,
BACKGROUND
In some countries, cyanamide is used as an alcohol intake inhibitor with few harmful side effects. So far 3 cases of allergic contact dermatitis and only 1 of lichenoid drug eruption due to cyanamide have been reported.
OBJECTIVE
We describe the clinical manifestations, course,
A 61-year-old woman with aplastic anemia was admitted to our hospital in October 2009 because of fever and abdominal pain. She had been treated with cyclosporin A without showing any effect. On admission, uterine cancer was diagnosed and the left uterine appendages were swollen. She was treated with
Using a tumor necrosis factor-α antagonist, the present study successfully treated a case of severe erythema multiform-type drug eruption, which occurred following anti-Helicobacter pylori therapy. A 73-year-old female suffering from upper gastrointestinal bleeding and peptic-ulcer presented with an