Vipera berus bite in a child, with severe local symptoms and hypotension

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 100-101

  Moser, Berthold ^a   Roeggla, Georg ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIPER VENOM;

CASE REPORT; CHILD; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EXTRASYSTOLE; GASTROINTESTINAL PAIN; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LETTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE; SOMNOLENCE; STRIDOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TACHYCARDIA; VIPERA BERUS;

EID: 63649112915     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/07-WEME-LE-157.1     Document Type: Letter

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