Complications and outcomes of brown recluse spider bites in children

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 252-258

  Hubbard, Jonathan J ^a   James, Laura P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

brown recluse; hemolysis; loxoscelism; pediatrics

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ACUTE ORBITAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CELLULITIS; CHILD; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFLAMMATION; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; NECROSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SPIDER BITE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; WOUND;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC; ANIMALS; ARACHNIDISM; CELLULITIS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NECROSIS; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SPIDER VENOMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951607908     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922810388510     Document Type: Article

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