Treatment of pruritus in a palliative care patient with low-dose paroxetine: a case report
Abstract Background Pruritus is a distressing symptom seen in palliative care. There is limited high-quality evidence of pharmaceutical treatments for pruritus in palliative care, including the use of paroxetine. Case presentation I present a case of a 70-year-old caucasian woman with metastatic ova...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-10-01
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Series: | Journal of Medical Case Reports |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13256-017-1437-6 |