Post-traumatic stress disorder in an elderly combat veteran: A case report

Military Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 659-662

  Markowitz, Joseph D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CETIRIZINE; CLOPIDOGREL; DILTIAZEM; ESCITALOPRAM; EZETIMIBE; FUROSEMIDE; HYDROCODONE BITARTRATE PLUS PARACETAMOL; HYDROXYZINE; ISOSORBIDE MONONITRATE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SERTRALINE; SOTALOL;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FATIGUE; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VETERAN;

EID: 34250367513     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.172.6.659     Document Type: Article

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