TY  - JOUR
T1  - Diseases of medical progress: A contemporary analysis of illness produced by drugs and other therapeutic procedures.
AU  - Di Cyan E
Y1  - 1969/11/01
N1  - 10.1001/archinte.1969.00300210119020
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 637
EP  - 639
VL  - 124
IS  - 5
N2  - Diseases of Medical Progress is a book with multiple functions. First, it can serve as a guide to contraindications to the use of a drug or cautions to be observed when prescribing a given drug. For example, the relatively safe drug, griseofulvin (Fulvicin, Grifulvin) may hardly be the drug of choice in a fungal infection if the patient is suspected of having systemic lupus erythematosus, because griseofulvin has been suspected of precipitating it.Second, it can serve as a guide in toxicology. Third, it can be of diagnostic help in clearing up the occurrence of an unrelated condition in a patient, by pointing to a side effect of a drug administered for a different purpose. For example, one can be at a loss to explain sudden and appreciable hair loss in a patient who may be euthyroid, has no topical lesions, or has not been exposed to radiation. But due
SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1969.00300210119020
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1969.00300210119020
ER  -