Necrotic skin lesions: Spider bite - Or something else?

Consultant

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1386-1394

  Benoit, Rocky ^a,b   Suchard, Jeffrey R ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Emergency Medicine ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Black widow; Brown recluse; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Spider bites

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DAPTOMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; LINEZOLID; MINOCYCLINE; TIGECYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; CELLULITIS; DIAPHORESIS; ENVENOMATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MUSCLE SPASM; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN EDEMA; SKIN NECROSIS; SPIDER; SPIDER BITE;

EID: 33750363657     PISSN: 00107069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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