Severe Hypersensitivity Reaction to Gold
- 1 August 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology
- Vol. 106 (2) , 231-234
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1972.01620110063015
Abstract
A patient who was receiving aurothioglucose developed a severe reaction characterized by dermatitis, alopecia, and fever. A positive lymphocyte transformation test with aurothioglucose as the test antigen in addition to other clinical and laboratory findings suggested that the reaction was allergic in origin.Keywords
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