Adverse Drug Reactions and the Skin

Adverse Drug Reactions and the Skin is a thoroughly modern and comprehensive text/atlas on the side effects on the skin of medications used by all medical practitioners, and of the dermatological and other internal adverse manifestations of the medications used by dermatologists. Illustrated in full colour, this major new work will enjoy wide use across a broad cross–section of the medical profession. This volume is divided into three major sections the first of which deals with the incidence and mechanisms of drug adverse reactions. The second section discusses reaction patterns which are recognised as characteristic of cutaneous drug reactions to particular medications. The reaction patterns are fully discussed and the text is fully supported by wide use of full–colour illustrations. Lists of the drugs most commonly implicated in the causation of these reactions are included. The final section includes a systematic listing of the drugs by therapeutic groups, reported to have caused skin side–effects. This listing includes dermatological preparations. Thus, the reader is readily able to research information on skin changes potentially caused by a given drug, and also to determine which drugs cause a given clinical reaction pattern.