Pruritus

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Misery, Laurent (Editor), Ständer, Sonja (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Dermatology.; General practice (Medicine).; Infectious diseases.; Primary care (Medicine).; Epidemiology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Infectious Diseases.; Primary Care Medicine.; General Practice / Family Medicine.

Acute and chronic pruritus can represent significant management issues both as a common physiological sensation and as a manifestation of dermatologic and non-dermatologic diseases. All patients suffering from itch know that it is a very awkward sensation. Unfortunately, this often significant sympt...