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Exposure to Euphorbia lathyris latex resulting in alkaline chemical injury: a case report

INTRODUCTION: We report the case of a patient with extreme pain following accidental exposure to the latex of Euphorbia lathyris. CASE PRESENTATION: A 76-year-old Caucasian woman attended the ophthalmology department with acute severe bilateral eye pain. This occurred immediately after having pulled...

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Autores principales: Ioannidis, Alexander S, Papageorgiou, Konstantinos I, Andreou, Petros S
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2783056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19946593
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-115