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Adverse skin reactions to drugs.

Types of pharmacological reaction

Acne due to medications.
Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis
Alopecia of drugs
Anaphylaxis
Angioedema
Baboon syndrome
Bullous drug rashes
Cutaneous vasculitis
Cutaneous Adverse reactions to antibiotics
Drug eruptions (extended rashes)
Drug hypersensitivity syndrome
Drug-induced psoriasis
Drug induced urticaria
Drugs that cause erythroderma
Fixed drug eruption
Flagellate erythema
Drug-induced lupus erythematosus
Numular drug-induced dermatitis
Drug-induced pemphigus
Drug induced photosensitivity
Drug-induced skin pigmentation
Drug-induced vitiligo
Hand-foot syndrome
Lichenoid amalgam reaction
Lichenoid drug rash
Morbid eruptionmaculopapular exanthema)
Lichenoid drug oral rash
Pseudoporphyria
Serum disease
Serum sickness-like reaction
Severe cutaneous adverse reaction
Stevens-Johnson syndrome / toxic epidermal necrolysis
Symmetrical drug related intertriginous and flexural rash (SDRIFE)
Urticaria

Specific medications

Anticonvulsants and the skin
Cutaneous adverse effects of antimelanoma therapies
Adverse skin reactions to psychotropic drugs
Adverse reactions to vaccines.
Arsenic
Calcineurin inhibitors
Crisis (gold toxicity)
EGFR inhibitors (protease inhibitors)
Skin toxicity of chemotherapy drugs
Nonsteroidal anti-steroidsinflammatory drugs (NSAID)
Halogenodermas (skin toxicity by iodides, bromides)
Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
Heparin necrosis
Lithium
Effects of methamphetamine on the skin
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
Argyria (silver toxicity)
Sulfa drugs
Systemic contact dermatitis
Current steroid withdrawal syndrome
Steroid rosacea
Warfarin-induced skin necrosis