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Residents’corner April 2014. Editorial: What's new this month? Volume 24, numéro 2, March-April 2014

Auteurs
1 Dermatology Department, Hospital de Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, Lisboa, Portugal
2 Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, University of Würzburg, Josef-Schneider-Str. 2, 97080 Würzburg, Germany
3 Department of Dermatology, University CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
4 Department of Dermatology, Churchill Hospital, Old Road, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7LJ, United Kingdom
5 Dermatology Department. Clinical University Hospital of Valencia. University of Valencia. Av Blasco Ibañez 17, 46010 Valencia, Spain
6 University of California, San Francisco, Department of Dermatology, 513 Parnassus Avenue HSW-518, San Francisco CA 94143-0511, United States

In this issue of the European Journal of Dermatology, Bircher et al.[1] revisit tolerance induction in drug hypersensitivity reactions, which is a controversial issue, particularly in delayed hypersensitivity reactions. Drug hypersensitivity may present as a mild, moderate or severe life-threatening reaction, becoming a problem for many patients when the offending drug is essential (and even irreplaceable).Determining which drug is responsible for the reaction may be challenging, especially in multiple [...]