Myokymia after snake envenomation in Arizona [2]

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 116-117

  LoVecchio, Frank ^a   Pizon, Anthony F ^a   Wallace, Kevin L ^a   Kunkel, Donald B ^a  

^a BANNER GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CROFAB; SNAKE VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENOM ANTISERUM; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENVENOMATION; FASCICULATION; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MICROENVIRONMENT; MYOKYMIA; SNAKEBITE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 20444372278     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(2005)16[116:MASEIA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Letter

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