Case report: Extraocular muscle paresis caused by snakebite

Kobe Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 11-15

  Takeshita, Tetsuji ^a   Yamada, Kazuhiro ^a   Hanada, Masakazu ^a   Oda Ueda, Naoko ^b  

^a Department of Ophthalmology   (Japan)

^b SOJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agkistrodon blomhoffi; Extraocular muscle paresis; Inferior oblique muscle; Mamushi

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATINE KINASE; NEUROTOXIN; SPIDER VENOM ANTISERUM;

ADULT; AGKISTRODON; ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIPLOPIA; DIVERGENT STRABISMUS; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INFERIOR OBLIQUE MUSCLE; MALE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; SNAKEBITE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VERTICAL STRABISMUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; DIPLOPIA; EXOTROPIA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; PARESIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SNAKE BITES;

EID: 0038269903     PISSN: 00232513     EISSN: 18830498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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