Impaired thermal and tactile sensitivity during interferon-α treatment

Clinical Drug Investigation

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 271-273

  Malaguarnera, Mariano ^a,b   Pistone, Giovanni ^a   Trovato, Barbara Adriana ^a   Panebianco, Pietra ^a   Rampello, Liborio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; DEFLAZACORT; PARACETAMOL; RECOMBINANT ALPHA INTERFERON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; COUGHING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; FEVER; HEAT SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETHARGY; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIVERING; SIDE EFFECT; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASTE DISORDER;

EID: 0029806687     PISSN: 11732563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00044011-199612050-00006     Document Type: Article

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