Intense Pulsed Light Treatment of Persistent Facial Hypermelanosis Following Drug-Induced Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis
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Ethambutol-induced toxic epidermal necrolysis.
continued. Four to fi ve days later patient again developed generalised body rashes with greater intensity for which she was referred to us. On examination she was febrile, vitals were stable, had erythematous patches over both malar prominences with haemorrhagic crusts present over the lips and anterior nares (Fig. 1), multiple areas of erosions all over the body with thick adherent yellow cru...
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عنوان ژورنال: Dermatologic Surgery
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1076-0512
DOI: 10.1097/00042728-200412020-00006