Stonefish envenomation-A lucky outcome

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 281-285

  Brenneke, Franziska ^a   Hatz, Christoph ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Envenomation; Marine injury; Stonefish

Indexed keywords

MEFENAMIC ACID; STONEFISH VENOM; TETANUS TOXOID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BITE WOUND; BURNING SENSATION; CASE REPORT; CRYOTHERAPY; ENVENOMATION; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPESTHESIA; IMMOBILIZATION; KNEE INJURY; LIMB PAIN; LIMB SWELLING; MYALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TETANUS; TETANUS PROPHYLAXIS; VASTUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; BITES AND STINGS; DIVING; FEMALE; FISH VENOMS; FISHES, POISONOUS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; TRAVEL;

EID: 33746909486     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2005.09.001     Document Type: Article

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