
Unusual and Interesting Adverse Cutaneous Drug Reactions.
Author(s) -
Vaishali Masatkar,
Ashok Nagure,
Lalit Gupta
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
doaj (doaj: directory of open access journals)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1998-3611
DOI - 10.4103/ijd.ijd_584_17
Subject(s) - medicine , rash , drug reaction , drug , dermatology , adverse drug reaction , drug eruption , differential diagnosis , intensive care medicine , pathology , pharmacology
Any drug can cause any rash! Cutaneous adverse drug reactions (CADRs) are great mimickers and can be included in the differential diagnosis of any inflammatory dermatoses. Several drugs can cause rash of similar morphology and the same drug can cause rash of different morphology. While some common and specific drug reaction patterns are recognized easily by the clinicians, many a times unusual and interesting patterns can be induced by drug(s), thus leading to erroneous diagnosis and mistreatment. This review aims to familiarize clinicians with some rare, yet interesting patterns of CADR.