Neurological complications secondary to severe scorpion envenomation

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Bahloul, Mabrouk ^a   Rekik, Noureddine ^a   Chabchoub, Imen ^a   Chaari, Anis ^a   Ksibl, Hichem ^a   Kallel, Hatem ^a   Damak, Hassan ^a   Chaari, Adel ^a   Ben Hamida, Chokri ^a   Chelly, Hedi ^a   Bouaziz, Mounir ^a  

^a HABIB BOURGUIBA HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Brain ischemia; Coma; Convulsion; Scorpion

Indexed keywords

SCORPION VENOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGITATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; CONVULSION; ENVENOMATION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIOSIS; MORBIDITY; MYDRIASIS; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; SCORPION; STRABISMUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCORPION VENOMS;

EID: 20244367615     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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