Chronic pruritus: Principals of diagnostics and therapy;Chronischer pruritus: Prinzipien der diagnostik und therapie

Hautarzt

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 627-638

  Stander S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Chronification; Itch; Pruritus

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; AZELASTINE; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CAMPHOR; CANNABINOID RECEPTOR AGONIST; CAPSAICIN; CETIRIZINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN A; DESLORATADINE; FEXOFENADINE; GLUCOCORTICOID; KETOTIFEN; LEVOCETIRIZINE; LORATADINE; MENTHOL; MONTELUKAST; NALFURAFINE; NALMEFENE; NALOXONE; NALTREXONE; OPIATE AGONIST; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PIMECROLIMUS; POLIDOCANOL; TACROLIMUS; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ALGORITHM; ANAMNESIS; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BIOCHEMISTRY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONICITY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEPRESSION; DERMADROME; DERMOGRAPHISM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; MASTOCYTOSIS; MENTAL DISEASE; MERALGIA PARESTHETICA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POLYCYTHEMIA VERA; PREVALENCE; PRURITUS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIZATION; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN MANIFESTATION; URTICARIA; VULVODYNIA;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANTIPRURITICS; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; DERMATITIS HERPETIFORMIS; HISTAMINE ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PRURITUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34447622262     PISSN: 00178470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00105-007-1362-5     Document Type: Review

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