Eye injury after jellyfish sting in temperate Australia

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 203-205

  Winkel, Kenneth D ^a   Hawdon, Gabrielle M ^a   Ashby, Karen ^b   Ozanne Smith, Joan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Cnidaria; Cyanea capillata; Emergency and environmental medicine; Envenomation; Eye injury; Hair jellyfish; Jellyfish stings; Marine stings

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CASE REPORT; ENVENOMATION; EYE INJURY; FACE EDEMA; HUMAN; JELLYFISH; MALE; PAIN; SWIMMING;

EID: 0036380876     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(2002)013[0203:EIAJSI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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