Chronic urticaria: What diagnostic evaluation is best?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Smith, Cliff R ^a   Persons, Robert K ^a   Smith, Rita ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Lackland Air Force Base ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC URTICARIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; NOTE; URINALYSIS; ANAMNESIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; REVIEW; SKIN TEST; URTICARIA;

HISTAMINE H1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HISTAMINE H1 ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; SKIN TESTS; URTICARIA;

EID: 84863042579     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: 15337294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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