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Osimertinib-Associated Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis in a Lung Cancer Patient Harboring an EGFR Mutation-A Case Report and a Review of the Literature.
Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) - 11 Aug 2020
Sato Izumi, Mizuno Hiroki, Kataoka Nobutaka, Kunimatsu Yusuke, Tachibana Yusuke, Sugimoto Takumi, Tani Nozomi, Ogura Yuri, Hirose Kazuki, Takeda Takayuki
Abstract excerpt
Toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) and Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) are life-threatening dermatologic adverse events in the same category, caused by a delayed-type drug hypersensitivity reaction. Although skin toxicity is common during treatment with epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs), osimertinib-associated TEN is quite rare-thus far, only one report has been published from...
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