Herbicide poisoning: A diagnostic challenge

Despite widespread availability, reports of herbicide poisoning from India are not common. Diagnosis is often difficult in the absence of proper history, non-specific clinical features and lack of diagnostic tests. A case of Paraquat poisoning is reported where diagnosis could be established only af...

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Autores principales: Ghosh, Supradip, Singh, Amandeep, Dewan, Himanshu, Walia, Gunwant, Bansal, Abhishek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3338242/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22557836
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.94437
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author Ghosh, Supradip
Singh, Amandeep
Dewan, Himanshu
Walia, Gunwant
Bansal, Abhishek
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description Despite widespread availability, reports of herbicide poisoning from India are not common. Diagnosis is often difficult in the absence of proper history, non-specific clinical features and lack of diagnostic tests. A case of Paraquat poisoning is reported where diagnosis could be established only after the recovery of the patient. The literature is reviewed.
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spelling pubmed-33382422012-05-03 Herbicide poisoning: A diagnostic challenge Ghosh, Supradip Singh, Amandeep Dewan, Himanshu Walia, Gunwant Bansal, Abhishek Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report Despite widespread availability, reports of herbicide poisoning from India are not common. Diagnosis is often difficult in the absence of proper history, non-specific clinical features and lack of diagnostic tests. A case of Paraquat poisoning is reported where diagnosis could be established only after the recovery of the patient. The literature is reviewed. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3338242/ /pubmed/22557836 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.94437 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Herbicide poisoning: A diagnostic challenge
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title_full Herbicide poisoning: A diagnostic challenge
title_fullStr Herbicide poisoning: A diagnostic challenge
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title_short Herbicide poisoning: A diagnostic challenge
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3338242/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22557836
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.94437
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