Latex allergy: A life-threatening complication

Hospital Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 505-507

  Zaidi, Zafar ^a,b   Mor, Yoram ^a   Mouriquand, Pierre D E ^a   Duffy, Patrick G ^a   Ransley, Philip G ^a  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Kidney Centre Karachi   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; URINARY TRACT DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LATEX HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 0032085370     PISSN: 14623935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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