A cluster of children with seizures caused by camphor poisoning

Pediatrics

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1269-1272

  Khine, Hnin ^a,d   Weiss, Don ^b   Graber, Nathan ^c   Hoffman, Robert S ^c   Esteban Cruciani, Nora ^a   Avner, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c Department of Health and Mental Hygiene   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT MONTEFIORE   (United States)

Author keywords

Camphor; Seizure; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

CAMPHOR; DIAZEPAM; FOSPHENYTOIN SODIUM; LORAZEPAM; VALPROIC ACID;

ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; EPILEPTIC STATE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INGESTION; IRRITABILITY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERTUSSIS; PEST CONTROL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RESTLESSNESS; SEIZURE; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SKIN; SPIRITUAL HEALING; TACHYPNEA; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; UNITED STATES; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; CAMPHOR; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; POISONING; RECURRENCE; SEIZURES; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66049161738     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-2097     Document Type: Article

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