Pruritus in dialysis patients treated with parenteral lidocaine.

Pruritus is one of the most disturbing and poorly understood symptoms in patients on chronic hemodialysis,1 2 3 4 its reported prevalence varying from 15 to 86 per cent. Except for a few case repor...

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