Purpura of the ears: a distinctive vasculopathy with circulating autoantibodies complicating long-term treatment with levamisole in children
- 24 May 1999
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in British Journal of Dermatology
- Vol. 140 (5) , 948-951
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2133.1999.02833.x
Abstract
The cutaneous side‐effects of levamisole include non‐specific and lichenoid eruptions, fixed drug eruption and, very rarely, cutaneous vasculitis. We describe a distinctive clinical and histological ...Keywords
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