A prospective study of acute poisonings in a sample of Greek patients

Central European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 158-160

  Exiara, Triada ^a   Mavrakanas, Thomas A ^b,d   Papazogiou, Leonidas ^a   Papazoglou, Dimitris ^a   Christakidis, Dimitris ^c   Maltezos, Efstratios ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c General Regional Hospital of Alexandroupoli   (Greece)

^d NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adults; Clinical status; Epidemiology; Poisoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350319297     PISSN: 12107778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a3522     Document Type: Article

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