A fatal case of intravenous paraquat poisoning
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Intravenous paraquat poisoning.
Paraquat is a substance that is highly poisonous to humans. Oral ingestion is the most common pathway of poisoning. Intravenous paraquat poisoning is rare and is strongly associated with attempted suicide. The clinical presentations of such a scenario would appear to be quite different from those of oral ingestion. Herein, we present a case of an intravenous drug abuser who injected paraquat in...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1340-7988,1882-966X
DOI: 10.3918/jsicm.19.95