Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Volume 75, Issue 5 , Pages 702-705 , 1981

Envenoming by Cerastes vipera—a report of two cases

  • Joseph Zimmerman

      Affiliations

    • Dept. of Medicine B, Hodassah University Hospital Israel
    • ,
  • Gideon Mann

      Affiliations

    • Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery, Mt. Scopus, Hadassah University Hospital Israel
    • ,
  • Haim Y. Kaplan

      Affiliations

    • Dept. of Plastic Surgery, Hadassah University Hospital Israel
    • ,
  • Uri Sagher

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery, Shaare-Zedek Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

,Accepted 26 January 1981.

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Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Volume 75, Issue 5 , Pages 702-705 , 1981

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