RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Staphylococcal scalded-skin syndrome The Cleveland Clinic experience
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 141
OP 143
VO 50
IS 2
A1 Schieid M. Wikas
A1 Kenneth J. Tomecki
YR 1983
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/50/2/141.abstract
AB Staphylococcal scalded-skin syndrome (SSSS) or staphylococcalinduced toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) is a severe blistering disease of young children. The causative organism is Staphylococcus aureus. We describe the clinical characteristics of this disease in 6 children seen at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation between 1970 and 1979.