Vipera berus bites in the region of southwest polanda clinical analysis of 26 cases

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 114-119

  Magdalan, Jan ^a,b   Trocha, Magorzata ^b   Merwid Ld, Anna ^b   Sozaski, Tomasz ^b   Zawadzki, Marcin ^b  

^a T Marciniak Lower Silesia Specialist Hospital Wroclaw   (Poland)

^b WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Antivenom; Bites; Envenomation; Poland; Snake; Snakebite; Venom; Vipera berus

Indexed keywords

VENOM ANTISERUM; VIPER VENOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PATHOLOGY; POLAND; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; POLAND; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SNAKE BITES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIPER VENOMS; VIPERIDAE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955735458     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wem.2010.01.005     Document Type: Article

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