RDX Intoxication Causing Seizures and a Widespread Petechial Rash Mimicking Meningococcaemia

Overview

Journal J R Soc Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 1992 Mar 1

PMID 1556729

Citations 7

Authors

D J Goldberg

S T Green

D Nathwani

J McMenamin

N Hamlet

D H Kennedy

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