Calcium carbide poisoning via food in childhood

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 179-180

  Per, Hüseyin ^a   Kurtoǧlu, Selim ^a   Yaǧmur, Fatih ^a   Gümüş, Hakan ^a   Kumandaş, Sefer ^a   Poyrazoǧlu, M Hakan ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

calcium carbide; childhood; poisoning

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBIMIDE; DIAZEPAM;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DATE (FRUIT); DELIRIUM; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FATHER; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ACETYLENE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMA; DELIRIUM; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD PRESERVATION; FRUIT; HUMANS; SEIZURES;

EID: 33847267823     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2006.05.049     Document Type: Article

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