Lithium intolerance in a medical-psychiatric population

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 85-90

  Stoudemire, Alan ^a   Hill, Connie D ^a   Lewison, Barbara J ^a   Marquardt, Marti ^a   Dalton, Sandy ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; FLUOXETINE; LITHIUM CARBONATE; NORTRIPTYLINE; PAROXETINE; PHENELZINE; SERTRALINE; VENLAFAXINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELAPSE; TREMOR;

ADJUVANTS, PHARMACEUTIC; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEPRESSION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; LITHIUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031977948     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0163-8343(97)00129-1     Document Type: Article

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