Effect of raloxifene in human neurocysticercosis

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Sacerdote, Alan Scott ^a   Mejía, Javier O ^b   Bahtiyar, Gül ^a   Salamon, Oskar ^a  

^a WOODHULL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; ALBENDAZOLE; CALCITRIOL; DEXAMETHASONE; METFORMIN; RALOXIFENE; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ACNE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; HIRSUTISM; HUMAN; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIGOMENORRHEA; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 84864607987     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.06.2011.4417     Document Type: Article

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