Colchicine for acute gout

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Schlesinger, Naomi ^a   Schumacher, R ^b   Catton, M ^b   Maxwell, L ^b  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; INDOMETACIN; NAPROXEN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLACEBO;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADVERSE OUTCOME; CINAHL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EDEMA; EMBASE; ERYTHEMA; GOUT; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MEDLINE; NAUSEA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PALPATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; STOMACH DISEASE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VOMITING;

EID: 42749105014     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006190     Document Type: Review

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