Deep non-reactive reversible coma after a Mediterranean neurotoxic fish poisoning;Coma profond aréactif réversible après intoxication par des abats d'un poisson méditerranéen

Revue Neurologique

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 337-340

  Awada, A ^a   Chalhoub, V ^a   Awada, L ^b   Yazbeck, P ^a  

^a SAINT JOSEPH UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^b ECOLE NATIONALE VÉTÉRINAIRE D ALFORT   (France)

Author keywords

Brainstem reflexes; Fish; Lagocephalus; Tetrodotoxin

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMA; DYSARTHRIA; FISH; FISH POISONING; FOOD POISONING; GONAD; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LAGOCEPHALUS SCLERATUS; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROTOXICITY; QUADRIPLEGIA; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SKIN TINGLING;

EID: 77949271596     PISSN: 00353787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2009.06.004     Document Type: Article

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