Stingray injuries: A lesson in debridement

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 112, Issue 1086, 1999, Pages 137-138

  Flint, David J ^a   Sugrue, William J ^a  

^a Northland Base Hospital   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETANUS TOXOID;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BITES AND STINGS; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FLATFISH; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PAIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TOXIC FISH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BITES AND STINGS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FISHES, POISONOUS; FLATFISHES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PAIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TETANUS TOXOID; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0033596986     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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