Pitviper bites: Rational management in locales in which copperheads and cottonmouths predominate

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 276-285

  Lawrence, W Thomas ^a,b   Giannopoulos, Athina ^a   Hansen, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; DEFORMITY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EXCISION; FEMALE; FIRST AID; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAKEBITE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; ANIMAL; DEBRIDEMENT; FASCIA; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SNAKE; UNITED STATES;

VENOM ANTISERUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEBRIDEMENT; FASCIA; FIRST AID; HUMANS; NORTH CAROLINA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SNAKE BITES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 0029665648     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000637-199603000-00009     Document Type: Article

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