Star fruit intoxication with acute kidney injury

Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 494-

  Lee, Kian Guan ^a  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM OXALATE; OXALIC ACID;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; APOPTOSIS; AVERRHOA CARAMBOLA; COMA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FATALITY; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD POISONING; FRUIT; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOPERFUSION; HICCUP; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY EPITHELIUM; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LETTER; MENTAL DISEASE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RESTLESSNESS; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; STAR FRUIT INTOXICATION; VOMITING;

EID: 84867905908     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: 14734893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.12-5-494     Document Type: Letter

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