Fatal potassium dichromate ingestion [3]

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 286-287

  Sharma, N ^a   Chauhan, S ^a   Varma, S ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DICHROMATE POTASSIUM; LACTULOSE; PANTOPRAZOLE; STEROID; VITAMIN K GROUP;

ADULT; ARTERIAL GAS; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; BURNING SENSATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRYSTALLOID; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTOXICATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETTER; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; OXYGEN SATURATION; RESPIRATORY ALKALOSIS; VOMITING;

ADULT; CAUSTICS; FATAL OUTCOME; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE; POTASSIUM DICHROMATE;

EID: 0345169813     PISSN: 00223859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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