Steven-Johnson's syndrome, or great multiform erythema, appears as a systemic disturbance, with skin involvement and mucous membranes, related to several factors, such as, viral or bacterial infections and mainly the administration of medicines, in general painkillers and antibiotics. The objective of this work is report the emergence of ulcerative vesicle -bubble chronic disease in areas of lips, gum, tongue and genital mucous membrane in a 26 year-old patient, leucoderma and masculine gender, in treatment of breathing infection with sulfametoxazol-trimetropima, having been diagnosed as syndrome of Steven-Johnson.
Among the serious medicaments reactions, there are as great representative the Mucocutaneous Disorders immunological mediated. Steven-Johnson's syndrome, or great multiform erythema, appears as a systemic disturbance, with skin involvement and mucous membranes, related to several factors, such as, viral or bacterial infections and mainly the administration of medicines, in general painkillers and antibiotics. The objective of this work is report the emergence of ulcerative vesicle -bubble chronic disease in areas of lips, gum, tongue and genital mucous membrane in a 26 year-old patient, leucoderma and masculine gender, in treatment of breathing infection with sulfametoxazol-trimetropima, having been diagnosed as syndrome of Steven-Johnson.
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University of Pernambuco
Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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