Abstract
Stevens–Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis in an academic hospital setting: a 5-year retrospective study
Highlights
Toxic epidermal necrolysis and Stevens–Johnson syndrome are acute life-threatening mucocutaneous reactions to drugs
Toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) and Stevens–Johnson syndrome (SJS) are acute life-threatening mucocutaneous reactions usually to drugs characterized by extensive necrosis and detachment of the epidermis plus widespread erythematous or purpuric macules or flat atypical lesions [1] (Fig. 1)
The medical records of SJS/TEN patients hospitalized at Department of Dermatology in The Infant Jesus Teaching Hospital in Warsaw, Poland between 2009 and 2014 were retrospectively reviewed
Summary
Toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) and Stevens–Johnson syndrome (SJS) are acute life-threatening mucocutaneous reactions usually to drugs characterized by extensive necrosis and detachment of the epidermis plus widespread erythematous or purpuric macules or flat atypical lesions [1] (Fig. 1). These two conditions are severity variants of an identical process of epidermal necrolysis (EN) that differs only in the final extent of body surface involved: below 10% in SJS, from 10 to 30% in overlap SJS/TEN and above 30% of the body surface in TEN [1,2].
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