Antiepileptic Skin Reactions and Brain Tumors

Abstract

The frequency of both severe and mild skin reactions in 289 adult patients with brain tumors treated consecutively (1988-93) with cranial radiation and AEDs was studied retrospectively by review of records at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA.

Keywords

• skin reactions in brain tumor
• cranial irradiation
• carbamazepine