Clinical outcome of paraquat poisoning

Korean Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 93-94

  Yoon, Sung Chul ^a  

^a Dankook University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DIURETIC AGENT; LAXATIVE; LIPID HYDROPEROXIDE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; PARAQUAT; STEROID; SUPEROXIDE; HERBICIDE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG MEGADOSE; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXCRETION; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HEMODIAFILTRATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOPERFUSION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; HYDRATION; INFLAMMATION; JEJUNUM; KOREA; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG FUNCTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORTALITY; OSTEOLYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARAQUAT POISONING; SHOCK; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; BRONCHIECTASIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; DRUG EFFECT; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; LUNG; LUNG INJURY; LUNG VOLUME; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SURVIVOR; TIME; VITAL CAPACITY;

BRONCHIECTASIS; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HERBICIDES; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG INJURY; LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS; PARAQUAT; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 67650725610     PISSN: 12263303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3904/kjim.2009.24.2.93     Document Type: Editorial

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