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Erythema nodosum and oral contraceptives
Author(s) -
DARLINGTON L. G.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
british journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.304
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1365-2133
pISSN - 0007-0963
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1974.tb06387.x
Subject(s) - erythema nodosum , medicine , dermatology , erythema , etiology , erythema multiforme , pathology , disease
SUMMARY Erythema nodosum may be related to a variety of diseases or possibly to drug therapy. Oral contra(notreadable) have only rarely been implicated in the literature, but a number of cases have been reported the Committee on Safety of Medicines in which erythema nodosum; appears to have been related contraceptives, in fact, they are the drugs most commonly reported to this Committee as associated (notreadable) the disorder. A detailed case report is presented in which erythema nodosum is thought to have (notreadable) precipitated by an oral contraceptive. Whilst several groups of drugs have been implicated in its aetiology, a causative relationship between a drug and erythema nodosum is often questionable. Oral contraceptives and erythema nodosum have been linked by several authors (Holcomb, 1965; Matz, 1967; Baden & Holcomb, 1968; Savel, Madison & Meeker, 1970). Savel et al . (1970) in fact described not only erythema nodosum, but also erythema multiforme in their two patients taking oral contraceptives.