Concerns over lindane treatment for scabies and lice

CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Volumn 168, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1447-1448

  Wooltorton, Eric ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEXIT; KWELLADA P; LINDANE; PERMETHRIN; PIPERONYL BUTOXIDE; PYRETHRIN; SHAMPOO; INSECTICIDE;

CREAM; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LOUSE; MITE; NEUROTOXICITY; PARESTHESIA; PEDICULOSIS CAPITIS; PRURITUS; SARCOPTES SCABIEI; SCABIES; SENESCENCE; SHORT SURVEY; VERTIGO; ARTICLE; CANADA; DRUG LABELING; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PEDICULOSIS; PRESCRIPTION; STATISTICS; TOXICITY AND INTOXICATION; UNITED STATES;

CANADA; DRUG LABELING; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; LICE INFESTATIONS; LINDANE; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; PATIENT SELECTION; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; SCABIES; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0037527651     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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