Deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) intoxication: An analysis of 49 children

Human and Experimental Toxicology

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 665-668

  Çaksen, Hüseyin ^a,b   Odabaş, Dursun ^a   Akbayram, Sinan ^a   Cesur, Yasar ^a   Arslan, Şükrü ^a   Üner, Abdurrahman ^a   Öner, Ahmet Faik ^a  

^a YUZUNCU YIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Atropa belladonna; Child; Deadly nightshade; Intoxication

Indexed keywords

BELLADONNA ALKALOID; NEOSTIGMINE; PHYSOSTIGMINE;

ATROPA BELLADONNA; BRAIN DISEASE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FLUSHING; HUMAN; LETHARGY; MALE; MYDRIASIS; PLANT INTOXICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPEECH DISORDER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TACHYCARDIA;

ATROPA BELLADONNA; CHILD; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY TESTS; COMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; PLANT POISONING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP STAGES; SPEECH; TURKEY;

ATROPA; ATROPA BELLADONNA; SOLANUM;

EID: 1242330480     PISSN: 09603271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0960327103ht404oa     Document Type: Review

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