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Upper airway obstruction caused by brown recluse spider envenomization of the neck
C S Goto1, T J Abramo, C M Ginsburg
1Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA.
The American Journal of Emergency Medicine
|November 1, 1996
Abstract:
A 7-year-old boy presented to the emergency department with progressive cervical soft tissue swelling and airway compromise due to envenomization by a brown recluse spider. This life-threatening complication is an extremely unusual presentation of brown recluse spider envenomization. Previous published reports have centered on the disfiguring localized tissue necrosis or life-threatening systemic reactions that occur secondary to the spider's venom.