Multiple hemorrhagic brain infarcts after viper envenomation

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 253-257

  Boviatsis, Efstathios J ^a   Kouyialis, Andreas T ^a   Papatheodorou, George ^b   Gavra, Maro ^c   Korfias, Stefanos ^a   Sakas, Damianos E ^a  

^a EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c Evgenidion Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIPER VENOM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ENVENOMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; VASOMOTOR DISORDER; AGED; ANIMAL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOOT; RADIOGRAPHY; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE;

POMACANTHUS MACULOSUS; SERPENTES;

AGED; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; SNAKE BITES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 0037317863     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2003.68.253     Document Type: Article

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