Abstract
A case of acrodynia in an eight-and-a-half-year-old girl is presented whose symptoms—profuse perspiration, swelling, desquamation, pain, itching of the extremities, pinkish color of the nose and cheeks and hypertension—responded sharply to nifedipine therapy.
Keywords: acrodynia, nifedipine treatment
Copyright and license
Copyright © 1989 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
How to cite
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Özsoylu Ş, Sarıkayalar F, Aksoy A. Nifedipine in the treatment of acrodynia. Turk J Pediatr 1989; 31: 159-161. https://doi.org/10.24953/turkjpediatr.1989.3841
