Pigmentary abnormalities of skin due to drug

Definition

Disturbances of skin colour due to an ingested or injected drug. These may result from a number of different mechanisms including the colour of the drug itself, disturbed melanisation of the skin or deposition of pigments by drug breakdown products.

Also indexed as

Nearby in Adverse cutaneous reactions to medication

• EH60-EH6ZDrug eruptions
• EH71Dermatoses precipitated by drug therapy
• EH72Drug-induced hair abnormalities
• EH73Drug-induced nail abnormalities
• EH74Drug-induced oral conditions
• EH75Photosensitivity due to drug
• EH76Dermatoses associated with specific classes of medication
• EH77Localised adverse cutaneous reactions to administration of drug