Citation

Goto CS, Abramo TJ, Ginsburg CM. Am. J. Emerg. Med. 1996; 14(7): 660-662.

Affiliation

Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S0735-6757(96)90083-2

PMID

8906765

Abstract

A 7-year-old boy presented to the emergency department with progressive cervical soft tissue swelling and airway compromise due to envenomization by a brown recluse spider. This life-threatening complication is an extremely unusual presentation of brown recluse spider envenomization. Previous published reports have centered on the disfiguring localized tissue necrosis or life-threatening systemic reactions that occur secondary to the spider's venom.

Language: en