Benign ethnic neutropenia and clozapine monitoring

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 967-968

  Blackman, Gabrielle ^a  

^a KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIPIPRAZOLE; CITALOPRAM; CLOZAPINE; OLANZAPINE; PERPHENAZINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ANXIETY DISORDER; BENIGN ETHNIC NEUTROPENIA; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ETHNIC GROUP; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUTROPENIA; PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; ETHNOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; CLOZAPINE; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; NEUTROPENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIA, PARANOID;

EID: 58149177987     PISSN: 08908567     EISSN: 15275418     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e318179a020     Document Type: Letter

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