@article{ceb2c671784444b28075d5266c55e332,
title = "Levamisole-induced vasculopathy: a report of 2 cases and a novel histopathologic finding.",
author = "Jacob, \{Reza S.\} and Silva, \{Claudine Yap\} and Powers, \{Jennifer G.\} and Schieke, \{Stefan M.\} and Gary Mendese and Burlingame, \{Rufus W.\} and Miller, \{Daniel D.\} and Deon Wolpowitz and Emmy Graber and Meera Mahalingam",
note = "Although cocaine-induced pseudovasculitis and urticarial vasculitis have been reported in the past, levamisole-induced vasculopathy with ecchymosis and necrosis, termed here LIVEN, has only recently been described in association with cocaine use. Levamisole, a veterinary antihelminthic agent used previously as an immunomodulating agent, is present as a {"}cutting agent{"} in approximately two-thirds of the cocaine currently entering the United States.",
year = "2012",
month = apr,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1097/DAD.0B013E31821CC0BF",
language = "American English",
volume = "34",
journal = "American Journal of Dermatopathology",
issn = "1533-0311",
publisher = "Lippincott Williams \& Wilkins",
number = "2",
}