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.

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Ozsoylu S, Sarikayalar F, Aksoy A. Nifedipine in the treatment of acrodynia. Turk J Pediatr 1989; 31: 159-161.