Cutaneous Adverse Effects of Neurologic Medications
@article{Bahrani2016CutaneousAE, title={Cutaneous Adverse Effects of Neurologic Medications}, author={Eman Bahrani and Chloe E. Nunneley and Sylvia Hsu and Joseph Shimon Kass}, journal={CNS Drugs}, year={2016}, volume={30}, pages={245-267} }
Life-threatening and benign drug reactions occur frequently in the skin, affecting 8 % of the general population and 2–3 % of all hospitalized patients, emphasizing the need for physicians to effectively recognize and manage patients with drug-induced eruptions. Neurologic medications represent a vast array of drug classes with cutaneous side effects. Approximately 7 % of the United States (US) adult population is affected by adult-onset neurological disorders, reflecting a large number of…
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