Digital imaging: A promising tool for mushroom identification

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 808-811

  Fischbein, Connie B ^a   Mueller, Gregory M ^b   Leacock, Patrick R ^b   Wahl, Michael S ^a,c,e   Aks, Steven E ^d,e  

^a ILLINOIS POISON CENTER   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c ADVOCATE ILLINOIS MASONIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

^e Toxikon Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Digital imaging; Fungi; Mushrooms; Poisoning; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIGITAL COMPUTER; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; MUSHROOM POISONING; MYCOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; POISON CENTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 0037480253     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/aemj.10.7.808     Document Type: Article

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