Pesticide-like poisoning from a prescription drug [4]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 353, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 317-318

  Lai, Melisa W ^a   Moen, Matthew ^b   Ewald, Michele Burns ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; CREATININE; ELECTROLYTE; GLUCOSE; PRALIDOXIME; RIVASTIGMINE; UREA; CARBAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PESTICIDE;

BLOOD CELL COUNT; CARDIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOREFLEXIA; INFANT; INTOXICATION; LETTER; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MIOSIS; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHYDRATION; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; URINALYSIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER;

CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PESTICIDES; PHENYLCARBAMATES;

EID: 22344443111     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200507213530321     Document Type: Letter

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