Hypersensitivity to carbamazepine presenting as pseudolymphoma.
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Hypersensitivity to carbamazepine presenting as pseudolymphoma.
An unusually severe hypersensitivity reaction to carbamazepine is described, in which the patient presented with lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, bone marrow suppression, immunosuppression and other features strongly suggestive of a lymphoma.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.39.11.1224