Indomethacin Reduces the Side Effects of Intrathecal Interferon

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 310, Issue 2, 1984, Pages 126-127

  Mora, Jesus S ^a   Kao, ko Pei ^a   Munsat, Theodore L ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALPHA INTERFERON; CODEINE; IBUPROFEN; INDOMETACIN; INTERFERON; PARACETAMOL;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTHRALGIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DRUG THERAPY; EDITORIAL; FATIGUE; FEVER; HUMAN; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LETTER; MYALGIA; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PREVENTION; THERAPY;

HUMAN; INDOMETHACIN; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; INTERFERONS;

EID: 0021345408     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198401123100219     Document Type: Letter

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