Underlying diseases and co-factors in patients with severe chronic pruritus: A 3-year retrospective study

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 510-516

  Sommer, Franz ^a   Hensen, Peter ^a   Böckenholt, Barbara ^a   Metze, Dieter ^a   Luger, Thomas A ^a   Ständer, Sonja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atopic dermatitis; Chronic pruritus; Incidence; Itch; Prevalence; Prurigo nodularis

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; AMIODARONE; ENALAPRIL; FUROSEMIDE; HETASTARCH; METOPROLOL; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; OXAZEPAM; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENDER; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; NEOPLASM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCABIES; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN LYMPHOMA; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; THYROIDITIS; CANDIDIASIS; DRUG THERAPY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANDIDIASIS; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DRUG THERAPY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PRURITUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN DISEASES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 38849114478     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-0320     Document Type: Article

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