A retrospective study of 40 victims of Crotalus snake bites: analysis of the hepatic necrosis observed in one patient

Forty patients with a diagnosis of snake bite were studied at the Infectious and Parasitic Disease Service of the Faculty of Medicine of Botucatu. Thirty were males and 10 females, ranging in age from 16 to 70 years. All were farm laborers and 35 of them were bitten in the lower limbs. Two of the 9...

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Main Authors: Benedito Barraviera, José Carlos Bonjorno Junior, Denise Arakaki, Maria Aparecida C. Domingues, Paulo Camara Marques Pereira, Rinaldo P. Mendes, Jussara Marcondes Machado, Domingos Alves Meira
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Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 1989-03-01
Series:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86821989000100002&lng=en&tlng=en