Erythema multiforme: As a complication of allergen-specific immunotherapy.
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Here we present a 25-year-old female patient admitted with a complaint of blistering lesions on her face, neck, chest and extremities appearing after the first dosis of specific immunotherapy and diagnosed as erythema multiforme. To our knowledge, there are no papers in the literature reporting erythema multiforme due to specific immunotherapy.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Allergologia et immunopathologia
دوره 29 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001