Photosensitivity reaction induced by finasteride

The patient visited our office complaining of a desquamating eruption on his face since two months. On extensive history‐taking, he had received oral finasteride for four months to prevent alopecia androgenetica, indicating drug‐induced photosensitivity. Withdrawal of finasteride for two weeks resul...

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Autor principal: Yamada, Takayuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062542/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35509334
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.510
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description The patient visited our office complaining of a desquamating eruption on his face since two months. On extensive history‐taking, he had received oral finasteride for four months to prevent alopecia androgenetica, indicating drug‐induced photosensitivity. Withdrawal of finasteride for two weeks resulted in an improvement in the facial rash.[Image: see text]
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spelling pubmed-90625422022-05-03 Photosensitivity reaction induced by finasteride Yamada, Takayuki J Gen Fam Med Clinical Images The patient visited our office complaining of a desquamating eruption on his face since two months. On extensive history‐taking, he had received oral finasteride for four months to prevent alopecia androgenetica, indicating drug‐induced photosensitivity. Withdrawal of finasteride for two weeks resulted in an improvement in the facial rash.[Image: see text] John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-11-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9062542/ /pubmed/35509334 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.510 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Journal of General and Family Medicine published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Japan Primary Care Association. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Photosensitivity reaction induced by finasteride
title Photosensitivity reaction induced by finasteride
title_full Photosensitivity reaction induced by finasteride
title_fullStr Photosensitivity reaction induced by finasteride
title_full_unstemmed Photosensitivity reaction induced by finasteride
title_short Photosensitivity reaction induced by finasteride
title_sort photosensitivity reaction induced by finasteride
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062542/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35509334
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.510
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