Acute Phenytoin Intoxication: Causes, Symptoms, Misdiagnoses, and Outcomes
Phenytoin is a commonly prescribed antiepileptic drug. Due to its saturation (zero-order) pharmacokinetics, phenytoin carries a special risk of dose-related toxicity that is an important issue in emergency medicine. The purpose of this cross-sectional case-series study was to investigate the causes,...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2004-12-01
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Series: | Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1607551X09702621 |