Loxoscelism: Old obstacles, new directions

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 608-624

  Hogan, Christopher J ^a   Barbaro, Katia Cristina ^a   Winkel, Ken ^a  

^a Med Coll Virginia Virginia Cmw U   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHEMOKINE; COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOKINE; DAPSONE; ENZYME; SPIDER VENOM; SPIDER VENOM ANTISERUM; SULFONE;

AGRANULOCYTOSIS; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BLOOD FLOW; BONE MARROW DEPRESSION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MIGRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DIARRHEA; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ENVENOMATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INCISION; ISCHEMIA; LEUKOPENIA; LOXOSCELISM; METHEMOGLOBINEMIA; MYOPATHY; NAUSEA; NEURITIS; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PURPURA; SKIN EDEMA; SKIN NECROSIS; SPIDER; SPIDER BITE; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING; WOUND CARE;

EID: 9644272420     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.08.028     Document Type: Review

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