Developing a model of colchicine neuropathy
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Ed Chang1, A Lee Dellon, Evan S Dellon
1Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Neurological Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 3333 North Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Microsurgery
|March 29, 2002
Abstract:
Colchicine may be a cause of neuropathy. An experimental model to study this is developed.
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