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Boletín Clínico de la Asociación Médica del Hospital Infantil del Estado de Sonora

2008, Number 2

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Bol Clin Hosp Infant Edo Son 2008; 25 (2)

Loxoscelismo Sistémico Fatal en un Paciente Pediátrico Lactante. Reporte de un Caso.

Álvarez-Hernández G, Rascón-Alcantar A, Hurtado-Valenzuela JG

Language: Spanish
References: 15
Page: 105-109
PDF size: 344.83 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Envenomation from the bite of a brown recluse spider causes a wide range of clinical manifestations, from mild itching to death. The event is very rare in Sonora, a Northwestern Mexican Border State, so that the medical knowledge about clinics and epidemiology of loxoscelism is relatively scarce. For such a reason, we describe a fatal episode of systemic loxoscelism in a child with concomitant illnesses that might have contributed to exacerbate the clinical and pathological manifestations of the venom’s brown recluse spider.


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