Reporting of drug eruptions: The national pharmacovigilance program
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Reporting of drug eruptions: the National Pharmacovigilance Program.
In the daily drudgery of clinical practice, every now and then we come across a patient who is sure that a particular drug is affecting his or her skin in a peculiar way. However, to our brains, trained to recognize common drug eruptions, it seems fantastic that any drug could cause side effects such as digitate dermatosis, [1] mycosis fungoides, [2] leukemoid reaction, [3] leg ulcer [4] or eve...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0378-6323
DOI: 10.4103/0378-6323.13776