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Suddhendu Chakraborty1, Debasish Sanyal, Ranjan Bhattacharyya
1Department of Psychiatry, Calcutta National Medical College, Kolkata, India.
Indian Journal of Pharmacology
|January 6, 2011
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The following case report highlights an interesting observation of paroxetine-induced galactorrhoea at therapeutic dosage and serum prolactin values of this patient comes out to be normal. This observation merits a systematic study to find the causal relationship of this unusual phenomenon and further explanation.
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