| [dress syndrome to allopurinol: a case in dakar]. | we report a case of dress syndrome also called drug hypersensitivity reaction occurring a 47 years old senegalese man who has been taking allopurinol for 3 months. that drug was prescribed for peripheric arthralgias associated to a hyperuricemia. he presented a generalised pruritus, cutaneous lesions, fever and facial oedema. on the biological examens, hyperleucocytosis with hypereosinophilia and hyperlymphocytosis associated to the presence of segmented basophiles. in addition, a hepatic cytoly ... | 2004 | 15786619 |