Treatment of recalcitrant cough with baclofen;Terapia della tosse refrattaria con baclofene

Italian Journal of Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 172-174

  Agostinis, Paolo ^a   Bardus, Paola ^a   Di Piazza, Vito ^a   Dassi, Ferdinando ^a   Durigon, Nadia ^a   Englaro, Alfio ^a   Grillo, Patrizia ^a   Marchetti, Euro ^a   Petris, Tiziano ^a   Sabatini, Enzo ^a  

^a S ANTONIO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Baclofen; Cough; GABA

Indexed keywords

BACLOFEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70350040931     PISSN: 18779344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.itjm.2009.03.001     Document Type: Article

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