Table 1 classification of patients with erythroderma by cause in some previous publications and in the present series.

Causes

Sigurdsson et al ¹⁴, 1996

Pal and Haroon⁷,1998

Nicolis and Helwig¹⁵, 1973

Hasan and jansan², 1983

Botellaestrada et al ¹, 1994

Sehgal and strivastava¹²,1986

King et al ¹³, 1986

The present series 2004

Preexisting dermatoses

53

74.4

25

42

62.5

52.5

30

57.9

Drug reacions

5

5.5

42

22

16

24.7

34

21.6

malignancies

13

5.5

21

4

12.5

0

20

11.3

Idiopathic

26

14.6

12

32

9

22.5

16

7.2