Benign nocturnal leg cramps: Current controversies over use of quinine

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 177-184

  Leclerc, Kenneth M ^a   Landry, Francis J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOFIBRATE; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; METHOCARBAMOL; NIFEDIPINE; PENICILLAMINE; PHENYTOIN; QUININE SULFATE; RIBOFLAVIN; TERBUTALINE; TERBUTALINE SULFATE; VERAPAMIL;

ANAMNESIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HALF LIFE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; LEG CRAMP; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE STRETCHING; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RASH; REVIEW; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

HUMANS; LEG; MUSCLE CRAMP; QUININE;

EID: 0030023157     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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