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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Main Author: Roni Y. Kraut
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-10-01
Series:Journal of Medical Case Reports
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13256-017-1437-6