Injuries from spider spines, not spider bites

Veterinary and Human Toxicology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 339-342

  Isbister, Geoffrey K ^a   Hirst, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INJURY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRURITUS; SPIDER; SPIDER BITE; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CHILD; FEMALE; FINGER INJURIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPIDERS; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

ARANEAE; SPARASSIDAE; THERAPHOSIDAE;

EID: 0036889956     PISSN: 01456296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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