Generalized pruritus without primary lesions: Differential diagnosis and approach to treatment

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 41-46

  Nowak, Michael A ^a   Tsoukas, Maria M ^a   DeImus, Fa Abigail ^a   Falanga, Vincent ^a   Brodell, Robert T ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CEFALEXIN; CLOBETASOL PROPIONATE; CORTICOSTEROID; DOXEPIN; HYDROXYZINE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEG ULCER; MALE; NEURODERMATITIS; PRURITUS; REVIEW; SKIN BIOPSY;

EID: 0033953936     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2000.02.921     Document Type: Review

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