Successful treatment of refractory neuropathic pruritus with capsaicin 8% patch: A bicentric retrospective study with long-term follow-up

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 864-865

  Misery, Laurent ^a   Erfan, Nouran ^b   Castela, Emeline ^b   Brenaut, Emilie ^a   Lantéri Minet, Michel ^b   Lacour, Jean Philippe ^b   Passeron, Thierry ^b,c  

^a BREST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE NICE   (France)

^c CENTRE MÉDITERRANÉEN DE MÉDECINE MOLÉCULAIRE C3M   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; CAPSAICIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DULOXETINE; GABAPENTIN; PREGABALIN; ROPINIROLE; ANTIPRURITIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALLERGIC NEUROPATHY; BRACHIORADIAL PRURITUS; BURN; BURNING SENSATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE DURATION; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUN EXPOSURE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; FRANCE; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; TIME FACTOR; TRANSDERMAL PATCH;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIPRURITICS; CAPSAICIN; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PRURITUS; REMISSION INDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDERMAL PATCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84940044871     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: 16512057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-2085     Document Type: Note

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