Bites of Brown Recluse Spiders and Suspected Necrotic Arachnidism
- 17 February 2005
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 352 (7), 700-707
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmra041184
Abstract
Although much has been published about the pathophysiology and treatment of necrotic spider bites, therapeutic interventions continue without evidence-based justification.Keywords
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