Experiences with acute organophosphate poisonings in Crete

Veterinary and Human Toxicology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 101-107

  Tsatsakis, Aristidis M ^a   Aguridakis, Panagiotis ^a   Michalodimitrakis, Manolis N ^a   Tsakalov, Andreas K ^a   Alegakis, Athanasios K ^a   Koumantakis, Evgenios ^a   Troulakis, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^b Venizelion General Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ACTIVATED CARBON; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ATROPINE; CHLORPROMAZINE; CHOLINESTERASE; DIMETHOATE; FENTHION; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; LIDOCAINE; MALATHION; MECARBAM; METHIDATHION; ORGANOPHOSPHATE INSECTICIDE; PHOSPHAMIDON; PRALIDOXIME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DETOXIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GREECE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOASSAY; INTOXICATION; MALE; MIOSIS; NEUROPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETER; STOMACH LAVAGE; TESTIS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; UTERUS; VITREOUS BODY;

ADULT; AGED; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; DIMETHOATE; FEMALE; FENTHION; GREECE; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; KIDNEY; MALATHION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOTHIOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHAMIDON; POISONING; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; TESTIS; THIOPHOSPHORIC ACID ESTERS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UTERUS;

EID: 0029988520     PISSN: 01456296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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