Reversible Severe Myopathy During Treatment with Finasteride

April 1997 in “ Muscle & Nerve ”

Joost Haan, Justus M.R. Hollander, Sjoerd G. van Duinen, Pramod R. Saxena, Axel R. Wintzen

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