Black widow spider envenomation in a 36-year-old man [1]

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 285-

  Lifshitz, Matityahu ^a   Zalzstein, Eli ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCONATE CALCIUM; MORPHINE; NEUROTOXIN; NIFEDIPINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; ENVENOMATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MALE; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MYALGIA; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; SPIDER BITE;

EID: 0036918513     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(2002)013[0288:LTTE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Letter

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