Hemoperitoneum complicating snake bite: rare CT features. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Russels's viper bite victims with systemic poisoning may present with hemorrhagic manifestations, including spontaneous bleeding and incoagulable blood associated with disseminated intravascular coagulation and primary fibrinolysis, two of the most prominent manifestations of the systemic envenoming by this species. Various vascular complications of viperine snake bite have been reported in the literature. We report the computed tomographic findings in a case of snake bite resulting in hemoperitoneum, which, to the best of our knowledge, has not been reported in the literature.

publication date

  • January 1, 2003

Research

keywords

  • Hemoperitoneum
  • Russell's Viper
  • Snake Bites
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Viper Venoms

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0242331265

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1007/s00261-003-0020-3

PubMed ID

  • 14753597

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 28

issue

  • 6