Citation

Brandão EO, de Bastos HC, Nishioka SA, Silveira PV. Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. Sao Paulo 1993; 35(4): 381-383.

Affiliation

Centro de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8115801

Abstract

A 5-year-old girl was bitten in her left eye by a lance-headed viper identified as Bothrops moojeni, measuring 115 cm of length. There was severe facial swelling and left exophthalmus, and enucleation of the eye was necessary. The patient apparently had mild systemic envenoming, but local inflammatory signs and histological evidence of necrosis suggest that both the mechanical trauma and the local action of the venom had a role in the genesis of the eye lesion. It is arguable if the loss of the eye could be prevented even if the antivenom was administered earlier.

Language: en