What's the best diagnostic evaluation of night sweats?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 493-495

  Su, Cindy W ^a   Gaskie, Sean ^a   Hitchcock, Kristin ^b  

^a Sutter Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency Program   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; AMFEBUTAMONE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIMIGRAINE AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BETHANECHOL; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CLOZAPINE; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GOSERELIN; HISTRELIN; HYDRA ZIDE; INSULIN; LEUPRORELIN; NAFARELIN; NAFARELIN ACETATE; NARATRIPTAN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OMEPRAZOLE; PARACETAMOL; PARACETAMOL PLUS TRAMADOL; PARODEL; PILOCARPINE; PSEUDOEPHEDRINE; RIZATRIPTAN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SILDENAFIL; SULFONYLUREA; SUMATRIPTAN; SUMATRIPTAN SUCCINATE; TAMOXIFEN CITRATE; TRAMADOL; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VENLAFAXINE; ZOLMITRIPTAN;

ANAMNESIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FLUSHING; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; MENOPAUSE; NIGHT SWEAT; NOTE; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SWEATING; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ESTROGEN THERAPY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCRIPTION; RISK FACTOR;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MENOPAUSE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; RISK FACTORS; SWEATING;

EID: 34347337476     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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