Lesson of the week: Persistent itching due to etherified starch plasma expander

BMJ

Volumn 314, Issue 7092, 1997, Pages 1466-

  Speight, E Lucy ^a   Macsween, Ruth M ^a   Stevens, Alan ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN; CROTAMITON; HETASTARCH; HYDROCORTISONE; PLASMA SUBSTITUTE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BURN; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HEART ANEURYSM; HETASTARCH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA SUBSTITUTES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRURITUS;

EID: 0030927746     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.314.7092.1466     Document Type: Article

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