Colchicine exposures: The Texas experience

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 480-483

  Levsky, Marc E ^b   Miller, Michael A ^a   Masneri, David A ^b   Borys, Doug ^b  

^a TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Colchicine; Outcomes; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; COLCHICINE; LAXATIVE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DIARRHEA; DRUG EXPOSURE; ERROR; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POISON CENTER; STOMACH LAVAGE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; UNITED STATES; VOMITING;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLCHICINE; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVERDOSE; POISONING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; TEXAS; VOMITING;

EID: 43149111030     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e31816c01d7     Document Type: Article

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