Ciguatera poisoning

Practical Neurology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 316-322

  Achaibar, Kira C ^a   Moore, Simon ^a   Bain, Peter G ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CROMWELL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIGUATOXIN; CREATINE KINASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; MANNITOL;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CIGUATERA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE DURATION; DYSESTHESIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EOSINOPHILIA; FATIGUE; FISH; FOOD INTAKE; GAIT DISORDER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; LETHARGY; MALE; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NOCICEPTION; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PRURITUS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION;

ANIMALS; CIGUATERA POISONING; FISHES; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAINTINGS;

EID: 35448934905     PISSN: 14747758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2007.129049     Document Type: Article

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