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Naphthalene induced acute kidney injury in an African patient in Ghana: a case report

Naphthalene is commonly used in Ghana as an insecticide and there have been occasional ingestion unintentionally ingestion in children. Naphthalene use has been associated with intravascular haemolysis especially in patients with glucose-6-phoshate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency but its unorthodox...

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Autores principales: Tannor, Elliot Koranteng, Hutton-Mensah, Kojo Awotwi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6620055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31312313
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.32.201.17886