Fluoxetine in pathologic skin-picking: Open-label and double-blind results

Psychosomatics

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 314-319

  Bloch, Mark R ^a,b   Elliot, Michael ^a   Thompson, Holly ^a   Koran, Lorrin M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG USE; HUMAN; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN DISEASE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0034919187     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.42.4.314     Document Type: Article

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