Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS), also called erythema multiforme major, is a systemic disease mostly involving the skin and mucous ... by some other diagnosis. The treatment depends, in part ...

A NUMBER of reports have appeared in the literature in recent years on the condition known as the Stevens-Johnson syndrome ... to report the results of the treatment of 2 such cases with pituitary ...

A rare and potentially fatal skin infection with nightmarish ... less severe version of the infection, known as Stevens–Johnson syndrome (SJS). None of the patients reported side effects.

Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) has been defined differently by various investigators. Generally described as a systemic disease involving the skin and ... syndrome and the treatment should be ...

Furthermore, the vesiculo-bullous process that is characteristic of SJS is most commonly due to an inflammatory reaction that results in widespread necrosis of keratinocytes. In contrast to other ...

The migration of the CD8 cells which mediate the inflammatory response in SJS to the site where lesions develop, may be the result of over-expression of adhesion molecules; skin taken from SJS ...

Using immunoassay techniques, herpes viral antigen has been detected in serum from patients with EM and in skin lesions of EM. [7] The virus has also been identified by electron microscopy in ...

Grammer LC. Stevens-Johnson Syndrome: Affects More Than Just the Skin. MedGenMed 1(1), 1999 [formerly published in Medscape Pulmonary Medicine eJournal 1(4), 1997]. Available at: https://www ...