Esophageal electrochemical burns due to button type lithium batteries in dogs

Veterinary and Human Toxicology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 193-196

  Tanaka, Junsuke ^a   Yamashita, Mamoru ^a   Yamashita, Masatomo ^a   Kajigaya, Hiroshl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Nippon Prof Sch of Med Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALI;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BATTERY INDUSTRY; CAUSTIC BURN; CHEMICAL BURN; DOG; ESOPHAGUS BURN; NONHUMAN; SWALLOWING;

ANIMALS; BURNS, CHEMICAL; BURNS, ELECTRIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EPITHELIUM; ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES; ESOPHAGUS; LITHIUM; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; NECROSIS;

EID: 0031823901     PISSN: 01456296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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