A Clinico-Epidemiological Study of Erythroderma in a Tertiary Care Center in Jharkhand

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“…Many drugs are implicated as a cause of erythroderma, which include: sulphonamides, penicillin, isoniazid, antimalarial, allopurinol, phenytoin, omeprazole, captopril, vancomycin, infliximab, streptomycin, PAS, pyrazinamide, ethambutol, and rifampicin [5][6][7][8][9]. Scabies also implicated as a cause of erythroderma [10][11][12]. Jose et al [12], in an epidemiological study on erythroderma in India found that psoriasis is the common cause of erythroderma (38.23%), followed by the drug induced (20.59%), while atopic dermatitis, irritant dermatitis, pityriasis rubra pilaris, scabies, congenital ichthyosiform, pemphigus foliaceous, systemic lupus erythematosus and T. corporis form 5.88% for each.…”

“…Scabies also implicated as a cause of erythroderma [10][11][12]. Jose et al [12], in an epidemiological study on erythroderma in India found that psoriasis is the common cause of erythroderma (38.23%), followed by the drug induced (20.59%), while atopic dermatitis, irritant dermatitis, pityriasis rubra pilaris, scabies, congenital ichthyosiform, pemphigus foliaceous, systemic lupus erythematosus and T. corporis form 5.88% for each. It seems to be that most the published studies on erythroderma are from developing countries indicating that erythroderma psoriasis induced due to malpractice [1,[5][6][7][8][9]12].…”