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This article covers a few of the distinctive histomorphologic pattern and links to other articles that deal with specific organ systems. | This article covers a few of the distinctive histomorphologic pattern and links to other articles that deal with specific organ systems. | ||
=General principles= | |||
A drug/toxin reaction should be considered if there is: | |||
# Ingestion/exposure. | |||
# An appropriate temporal relation. | |||
# An empirical correlation between the drug/toxin and the pattern. | |||
#* Worsening with re-challenge. | |||
#* Improvement with removal of exposure. | |||
#* Pathologic pattern matches with toxin. | |||
#* Drug/toxin detected within individual. | |||
=Site specific= | =Site specific= | ||