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Tricyclic antidepressants for children with cancer

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.8.1074

Eight depressed children with cancer had a rapid clinical response to low doses of imipramine or amitriptyline. Because of the many variables affecting cancer patients, the mechanism by which tricyclic antidepressant treatment produced this response is unclear.

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