Hair relaxers: A benign caustic ingestion?

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 120-125

  Aronow, Stefanie P ^a   Aronow, Herbert D ^b   Blanchard, Thomas ^a   Czinn, Steven ^a   Chelimsky, Gisela ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caustic; Children; Hair relaxer; Ingestion

Indexed keywords

CAUSTIC AGENT; COSMETIC;

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM INJURY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; HUMAN; INGESTION; INTOXICATION; LIP; OROPHARYNX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VOMITING; CHEMICAL BURN; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; INFANT; INJURY; MALE;

BURNS, CHEMICAL; CAUSTICS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; HAIR PREPARATIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE;

EID: 1842844059     PISSN: 02772116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005176-200301000-00023     Document Type: Article

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