Patch testing and cross sensitivity study of adverse cutaneous drug reactions due to anticonvulsants: A preliminary report
T N Shiny, Vikram K Mahajan, Karaninder S Mehta, Pushpinder S Chauhan, Ritu Rawat, Rajni Sharma
T N Shiny, Vikram K Mahajan, Karaninder S Mehta, Pushpinder S Chauhan, Ritu Rawat, Rajni Sharma, Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprosy, Dr. R. P. Govt. Medical College, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh 176001, India
Author contributions: Shiny TN collected patients’ data, performed patch testing, analyzed and interpreted data, and drafted preliminary manuscript; Mahajan VK conceptualized, analyzed, interpreted data, and designed, re-drafted, and critically evaluated the manuscript for important intellectual content; Mehta KS helped in manuscript drafting, data collection, analysis and interpretation of data; Chauhan PS helped in analysis and interpretation of data and manuscript drafting; Rawat R and Sharma R helped in clinical material, editing, and drafting of manuscript; all these authors were involved in the revision of the draft manuscript and have agreed to the final content.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Scientific Protocol Review Committee, Dr R. P. Govt. Medical College, Kangra (Tanda), H.P. 176001 (India).
Informed consent statement: All study participants, or their legal guardian, provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: No potential conflict of interest.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Dr. Vikram K Mahajan, MBBS, MD, Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprosy, Dr. R. P. Govt. Medical College, Tanda Hospital Rd, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh 176001, India. vkm1@rediffmail.com
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Received: November 17, 2016
Peer-review started: November 22, 2016
First decision: January 14, 2017
Revised: January 21, 2017
Accepted: March 12, 2017
Article in press: March 13, 2017
Published online: March 26, 2017
