Herbicide: Fatal ammonium thiocyanate and aminotriazole poisoning

Clinical Toxicology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 441-446

  Legras, Annick ^a   Skrobala, Didier ^a   Furet, Yves ^a   Kintz, Pascal ^a   Forveille, Elisabeth ^a   Dequin, Pierre Francois ^b   Perrotin, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b CHU BRETONNEAU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRIAZOLE; HERBICIDE; THIOCYANATE;

ADULT; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; COLLAPSE; COMA; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FATALITY; HEART ARREST; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERCHLOREMIA; INTOXICATION; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; OLIGURIA; RESUSCITATION; SHOCK;

AMITROLE; BODY FLUIDS; FATAL OUTCOME; HEMODIAFILTRATION; HERBICIDES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THIOCYANATES;

EID: 0029681106     PISSN: 15563650     EISSN: 15569519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15563659609013816     Document Type: Conference Paper

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