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Esophageal necrosis in the Stevens-Johnson syndrome

1993; Elsevier BV; Volume: 29; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0190-9622(08)81810-5

1097-6787

A. Mahé, Somita Kéita, Léopold Blanc, P Bobin,

Drug-Induced Adverse Reactions

Esophageal involvement is a rare complication of erythema multiforrne.e? It may be more frequent in toxic epidermal necrosis, which is considered the most severe form of drug-induced erythema multiforme.' To our knowledge, only six well-documented cases of esophageal involvement associated with erythema multiforme have been reported, two of them in patients with toxic epidermal necrosis.v? Esophageal involvement was an autopsy finding in one case. Extrusion of a necrotic esophageal muFrom the Institut Marchoux,