Late-onset warfarin-induced skin necrosis: case report and review of the literature
โ Scribed by Essex, D.W.; Wynn, S.S.; Jin, D.K.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 153 KB
- Volume
- 57
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0361-8609
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โฆ Synopsis
Warfarin-induced skin necrosis is a rare complication of therapy with warfarin or other coumarin derivatives. When it occurs it usually appears 3 to 6 days after initiation of therapy and almost always between days 1 and 10. We report a case of late-onset (16 days after initiation of therapy) warfarin-induced skin necrosis and review the literature on this rarely reported variant of warfarin-induced skin necrosis. The skin lesion in our patient was not associated with either deficiency of protein C or resistance to activated protein C. Am.
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