Wilderness: Sea Urchin Puncture (cont.)
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Author: Barbara Drobina, DO
Editor: Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD
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Author: Joseph Kaplan, MD, FACEP, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical Center of Central Georgia.
Editors: N Stuart Harris, MD, MFA, Staff Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; James Kimo Takayesu, MD, Staff Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Last Editorial Review: 4/7/2008
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The phylum Echinodermata includes a diverse group of marine animals that are slow moving and nonaggressive, including brittle stars (class Ophiuroidea), starfish (class Asteroidea), sea urchins (class Echinoidea), and sea cucumbers (class Holothuroidea).
