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To the Editor: Pruritus is a common, often distressing symptom in patients with cholestatic disease of various malignant and nonmalignant origins. Its exact cause is poorly understood, and treatment is often unsatisfactory¹. In August and September 1993, five patients (four men and one woman) were admitted to our hospital with severe pruritus. On a 10-point rating scale measuring subjective intensity (0 was no pruritus and 10 the worst pruritus imaginable), two patients each assigned values of 9 and 8 to their symptoms, and one a value of 7.

Three of the patients had progressive liver metastases from renal, colorectal, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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