Clinical, laboratory, diagnostic, and histopathologic features of diethylene glycol poisoning - Panama, 2006

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 38-47

  Sosa, Nestor R ^a   Rodriguez, Giselle M ^b   Schier, Joshua G ^c   Sejvar, James J ^d  

^a Gorgas Memorial Institute   (Panama)

^b Social Security Metropolitan Hospital   (Panama)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITUSSIVE AGENT; CREATININE; DIETHYLENE GLYCOL;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CONTAMINATION; FACIAL MOTOR WEAKNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIMB WEAKNESS; MALE; PANAMA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WEAKNESS;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ETHYLENE GLYCOLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; PANAMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84903168327     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2013.12.011     Document Type: Article

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