Self injection of dichlorvos, an organophosphorus compound

Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Raina, Sujeet ^a,b   Mahesh, D M ^a   Sood, Vivek ^a   Kaushal, Satinder Singh ^a   Gupta, Dalip ^a  

^a INDIRA GANDHI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b Fire Officers Building ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Dichlorvos; Organophosphorus poisoning; Self injection

Indexed keywords

EID: 51749118754     PISSN: None     EISSN: 09725997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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