Acute lithium toxicity: Two cases with different outcomes

Neurology India

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 484-485

  Pandey, S ^a   Jain, S ^a   Chatterjee, R ^a  

^a BHOPAL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CEFTRIAXONE; LITHIUM; PHENYTOIN; THYROXINE; VALPROIC ACID;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ATAXIA; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYNDROME; FASCICULATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; SEIZURE; SLURRED SPEECH; TREMOR; WEAKNESS;

ADULT; ANTIMANIC AGENTS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COMA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 58749109156     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.44816     Document Type: Letter

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