Systemic toxicity from ocular homatropine

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 868-871

  Reilly, Kevin M ^a   Chan, Lisa ^a   Mehta, Nalin J ^a   Salluzzo, Richard F ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

anticholinergic toxicity; drug induced toxicity; homatropine; ophthalmic medications

Indexed keywords

HOMATROPINE;

ADULT; ANTICHOLINERGIC EFFECT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG EFFECT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRIDOCYCLITIS; MANIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISORDER; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

EID: 0029761132     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1996.tb03533.x     Document Type: Article

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