Chronic Urticaria and Angioedema
- 17 January 2002
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 346 (3), 175-179
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmcp011186
Abstract
A 35-year-old woman presents with a three-month history of daily generalized hives. She has also had swelling of her lips and tongue, with associated tightness of the throat. How should she be evaluated and treated?This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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