Assessment of Itch: More to be Learned and Improvements to be Made

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Yosipovitch, Gil ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE;

ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECZEMA; EDITORIAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IONTOPHORESIS; NERVE FIBER C; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; THERMAL STIMULATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 0346363868     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1747.2003.12650.x     Document Type: Editorial

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