Fasciotomy worsens the amount of myonecrosis in a porcine model of crotaline envenomation

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 99-104

  Tanen, David A ^a,b   Danish, David C ^a   Grice, Guerard A ^a   Riffenburgh, Robert H ^a   Clark, Richard F ^b  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b San Diego   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCROTALINE; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENVENOMATION; FASCIOTOMY; LIMB; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWINE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

EID: 3242790812     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.01.009     Document Type: Article

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