Comparison of hyperbaric oxygen and dapsone therapy for Loxosceles envenomation

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 758-761

  Hobbs, Gregory D ^a,c   Anderson, Alena R ^a   Greene, Thomas J ^a   Yealy, Donald M ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

brown recluse spider; dapsone; envenomation; hyperbaric oxygen; Loxosceles reclusa

Indexed keywords

DAPSONE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; ENVENOMATION; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN NECROSIS; SPIDER BITE; SWINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND CARE;

EID: 0029785938     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1996.tb03511.x     Document Type: Article

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