Brown recluse spider envenomation

Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 211-226

  Furbee, R Brent ^a   Kao, Louise W ^a   Ibrahim, Danyal ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COLCHICINE; DAPSONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT; SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE; SPIDER VENOM; SPIDER VENOM ANTISERUM; STEROID; VASODILATOR AGENT; VENOM ANTISERUM;

CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENVENOMATION; FATALITY; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; LETHAL DOSE; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN NECROSIS; SPIDER; SPIDER BITE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; ARACHNIDISM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; SKIN DISEASES; SPIDER VENOMS; SPIDERS;

EID: 33645217842     PISSN: 02722712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cll.2006.02.004     Document Type: Review

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