Fatal toxic epidermal necrolysis following reexposure to phenytoin: a case report.
A 66-year-old epileptic patient developed toxic epidermal necrolysis following an oral loading dose of phenytoin. Administration of the drug was discontinued and the patient survived. Two years later he inadvertently received phenytoin again. The reexposure to phenytoin led to a fatal toxic epidermal necrolysis.
D000368:Aged; D004831:Epilepsies, Myoclonic / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010672:Phenytoin / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013262:Stevens-Johnson Syndrome / Q000139:chemically induced*
D010672:Phenytoin