Successful treatment of a patient suffering from severe acute potassium dichromate poisoning with liver transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2454-2455

  Stift, Anton ^a   Friedl, Josef ^a   Längle, Fritz ^a   Berlakovich, Gabriela ^a   Steininger, Rudolf ^a   Mühlbacher, Ferdinand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DIMERCAPROL; POTASSIUM CHROMATE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; COMA; DETOXIFICATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOFILTRATION; HUMAN; INGESTION; INTOXICATION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUICIDE; VOMITING;

EID: 0034660556     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200006150-00044     Document Type: Article

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