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Description Extensive tissue necrosis of the lower limb in an 11-year-old boy who had been bitten two weeks earlier by a Bothrops asper (viper) in Ecuador. The degree of necrosis is sufficiently severe that some form of surgical amputation above the knee would have been inevitable.
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Source Gutiérrez JM, Theakston RDG, Warrell DA (2006) Confronting the Neglected Problem of Snake Bite Envenoming: The Need for a Global Partnership. PLoS Med 3(6): e150, doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0030150 ( image link )
Author D. A. Warrell
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