Neurotoxicity associated with suspected Southern Pacific rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis helleri) envenomation

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 247-249

  Bush, Sean P ^a,c   Siedenburg, Eric ^b  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Neurotoxicity; Rattlesnake; Snakebite

Indexed keywords

DIPHENHYDRAMINE; NEUROTOXIN; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; DIPLOPIA; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHONIA; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; ENVENOMATION; FASCICULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROTOXICITY; PAIN; PTOSIS; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SERUM SICKNESS; SNAKEBITE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0033454117     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(1999)010[0247:NAWSSP]2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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