Experience with acute paraquat poisoning in Crete

Veterinary and Human Toxicology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 113-117

  Tsatsakis, Aristidis M ^a   Perakis, Kostas ^b   Koumantakis, Evgenios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; BENTONITE; HUMAN ALBUMIN; MANNITOL; PARAQUAT; PHENOLPHTHALEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DETOXIFICATION; FEMALE; GREECE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOPERFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTOXICATION; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; URINE LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; GREECE; HEMOPERFUSION; HERBICIDES; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAQUAT; PLACENTA; PLASMAPHERESIS; POISONING; RENAL DIALYSIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0029869116     PISSN: 01456296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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