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Central pruritus. Case report
Paolo Procacci1, Marco Maresca
1Pain Center, University of Florence, 50134 FlorenceItaly.
Pain
|June 1, 1991
Abstract:
An 82-year-old woman experienced generalized pruritus not due to skin or systemic disease. Scratching the skin with a needle induced a crisis of intense pruritus, insensitive to any drug. The pruritus had the characteristics of a central sensation.