CARBON TETRACHLORIDE POISONING

Poisoning due to use of carbon tetrachloride.

A fatal case of poisoning with carbon tetrachloride.

C. McI., a man aged 26 years, a joiner, on August 12. 1953. during the course of a bout of alcoholism. consumed a quantity of carbon tetrachloride in the form of " thawpit." Shortly afterwards he became intensely nauseated, but was unable to vomit for several hours. Thereafter, however, and for the following 48 hours vomiting was intractable. During this time he complained of pain in the chest,...

Acute carbon tetrachloride poisoning. Transaminase and biopsy studies.

Carbon tetrachloride poisoning as a hazard of wig cleaning.

Infectious-mononucleosis-like syndrome following haemodialysis for carbon tetrachloride poisoning.

A patient with renal failure after carbon tetrachloride poisoning is presented. Haemodialysis was required and renal function recovered completely. Convalescence was complicated by the development of an infectious-mononucleosis-like syndrome. The aetiology of this condition is discussed. The present case is the first to be reported after haemodialysis and transfusion of blood stored for at leas...