title: [Skin adverse drug reactions].
abstract: Adverse drug reactions are common and important complications of therapy. The clinical picture of drug-induced reactions is characterised by considerable polymorphism: from mild local lesions to fatal systemic processes. The classification of drug hypersensitivity encompasses systemic or specific organ forms. Skin has a special position in the diagnostics of adverse drug-induced reactions. Cutaneous lesions are almost universal and highly pathognomonic symptoms of drug-induced hypersensitivity. Urticaria, erythema-like skin reactions, drug-induced exanthemas, purpuric and hemorrhagic reactions are the most common cutaneous drug-induced manifestations.
authors.affiliation: Klinika Dermatologii, Wenerologii i Alergologii Akademii Medycznej w Gdańsku.
authors.forename: Elzbieta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Grubska-Suchanek
mesh_terms: D003875:Drug Eruptions / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology; D006634:Histamine H1 Antagonists / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D006634:Histamine H1 Antagonists