Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 30, Issue 1 , Pages 28-32 , July 1997

Clinical Presentation and Outcome of Brown Recluse Spider Bite

Received 29 April 1996 ,Revised 28 January 1997 ,Accepted 6 February 1997.

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☆ From the Department of Emergency Medicine* and the Center for Clinical Toxicology,‡ Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.

☆☆ Reprint no. 47/1/81996

★ Address for reprints: Seth W Wright, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 703 Oxford House, Nashville, TN 37212

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Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 30, Issue 1 , Pages 28-32 , July 1997

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