Hyperhidrosis and anxiety: Chicken or egg?

Dermatology

Volumn 214, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 195-196

  Ruchinskas, Robert ^a,b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSPNEA; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; HUMANS; HYPERHIDROSIS;

EID: 33947383750     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000099581     Document Type: Editorial

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