Streptomycin, cause of dermatitis venenata in a nurse; report of a case
| Autor: | Helen Pratt Davis, Sture A. M. Johnson |
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| Rok vydání: | 1949 |
| Předmět: |
Erythema nodosum
medicine.medical_specialty integumentary system Cutaneous eruptions Erythema medicine.drug_class business.industry Antibiotics Nurses Dermatology Adenitis DERMATITIS VENENATA medicine.disease Dermatitis Contact Nursing Streptomycin medicine Exfoliative dermatitis medicine.symptom skin and connective tissue diseases business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Archives of dermatology and syphilology. 59(2) |
| ISSN: | 0096-6029 |
| Popis: | Streptomycin may cause toxic erythema, 1 flushing, 2 urticaria, 2 erythema nodosum. 2c pruritus, 3 conjunctivitis, 4 exfoliative dermatitis, 5 maculopapular 6 and hemorrhagic 7 cutaneous eruptions. At the site of the injection swelling, erythema, heat, pain 3 and burning 2a as well as regional adenitis 8 and thrombosis 2b have been reported. Dermatitis venenata 3 has been noted in workers manufacturing this antibiotic. Since Paine and his group 7 found in a review of 291 papers on streptomycin that aforementioned reactions did not follow its ingestion, inhalation or local application, it is important to present this case of dermatitis venenata in a nurse who made and administered solutions of streptomycin. REPORT OF A CASE R. E. B., a 34 year old graduate nurse, was admitted to the department' of dermatology and syphilology on May 5, 1947, complaining of a dermatitis of the fingers of three weeks' duration as well as |
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