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A. DOSTROVSKI, M.D.; F. SAGHER, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1944;49(6):418-420.

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Sulfanilamide and its derivatives are now being so widely employed in practical therapy that any symptom occurring as a result of the administration of that drug should receive due attention; this is particularly true of the so-called "fixed erythema." In the literature reference has been made to this eruption by Loveman and Simon¹ and later by Goodman and Arthur.² In both reports definitely localized eruptions on various parts of the patients' bodies were described, in which renewed administration of the drug provoked the same reactions, but by both authors a certain tendency of the eruption to involve other parts of the healthy skin too has been noted.

The case herein reported shows some peculiarities which have not been encountered in the others: The localization was invariably the same; the eruptions greatly resembled those called forth by phenolphthalein, and after the lapse of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
JERUSALEM, PALESTINE

From the Dermatologic Department of the Rothschild-Hadassah University Hospital.

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