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A total of 600 cases of snake bite were treated in the Little Flower Hospital, Angamally during a period from June 1966, to July, 1974. Three of these people were seen later with manifestations of panhypopituitarism. This occurrence as a complication of snake bite is being reported, perhaps for the first time.
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Eapen, C.K., Chandy, N., Kochuvarkey, K.L., Zacharia, P.K., Thomas, P.J., Ipe, T.I. (1976). Unusual Complication of Snake Bite: Hypopituitarism after Viper Bites. In: Ohsaka, A., Hayashi, K., Sawai, Y., Murata, R., Funatsu, M., Tamiya, N. (eds) Animal, Plant, and Microbial Toxins. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0889-8_41
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