title: Stevens-Johnson syndrome: a clinical and histological study.
abstract: A description is given of a case of Stevens-Johnson syndrome clinically and histologically ascertained in a middle-aged male with typical localization and later chronicity of the ocular involvement. Besides, an outline is drawn of its clinical picture and of the etiopathogenetical hypothesis, dwelling upon the allergic hypothesis though not excluding the iatrogenic one.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001284:Atrophy; D001706:Biopsy; D003228:Conjunctiva / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004848:Epithelium / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007498:Iris / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D012008:Recurrence; D013262:Stevens-Johnson Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology