Deep vein thrombosis: a rare complication of thalidomide therapy in recurrent erythema nodosum leprosum.
Sharma NL, Sharma V, Shanker V, Mahajan VK, Sarin S
Department of Dermatology, Venereology & Leprosy, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla-171001 India. nandlals@hotmail.com
A case of deep-vein thrombosis is reported in a female patient with multibacillary leprosy who received pulses of dexamethasone and cyclophosphamide for recurrent ENL that had not responded to prednisone and thalidomide.
Published 9 March 2005 in Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis, 72(4): 483-5.
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