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Afatinib-induced toxic epidermal necrolysis: A case report with a literature review.

Andrej BelančićNika HlačaSandra PeternelMarin GolčićLarisa Prpić-MassariVera Vlahović-Palčevski
Published in: British journal of clinical pharmacology (2024)
We present a 70-year-old female patient diagnosed with epidermal growth factor receptor-mutated metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (T4N2M1a), who developed afatinib-induced toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN). We have also performed a PubMed/Medline literature review to detect other possible cases of TEN/Stevens-Johnson syndrome associated with afatinib treatment and found only 5 other cases reported. To our best knowledge, this is the first case of afatinib-induced TEN successfully treated with cyclosporine.
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