A snake bite by the Burrowing Asp, Atractaspis engaddensis

Toxicon

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 223-227

  Kurnik, Daniel ^a   Haviv, Yael ^a   Kochva, Elazar ^b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SARAFOTOXIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS; DIARRHEA; EDEMA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ERYTHEMA; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PALLOR; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SINUS RHYTHM; SKIN DISCOLORATION; SNAKEBITE; SWEATING; T WAVE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VOMITING; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; ANIMALS; EDEMA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ERYTHEMA; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; SNAKE BITES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VIPERIDAE;

ATRACTASPIDIDAE; ATRACTASPIS; ATRACTASPIS MICROLEPIDOTA ANDERSONI; SERPENTES;

EID: 0032890365     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(98)00166-4     Document Type: Article

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