The case of the salad shooters: Intravenous injection of wild lettuce extract

Veterinary and Human Toxicology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 290-291

  Mullins, Michael E ^a   Horowitz, B Zane ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORPHENIRAMINE MALEATE; PLANT EXTRACT; PSEUDOEPHEDRINE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG SAFETY; ERROR; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; LETTUCE; PRESCRIPTION; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LETTUCE; MALE; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; STREET DRUGS; VALERIAN;

LACTUCA; VALERIANA;

EID: 0031665565     PISSN: 01456296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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