Gasoline ingestion: A rare cause of pancytopenia

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 338, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 433-434

  Rahman, Ifad ^a   Narasimhan, Kanakasabai ^a   Aziz, Shahid ^a   Owens, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspiration pneumonia; Multisystem organ failure; Pancytopenia

Indexed keywords

1,3 BUTADIENE; BENZENE; CREATININE; GASOLINE; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; ATELECTASIS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FATALITY; FLUID THERAPY; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INGESTION; INTOXICATION; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PANCYTOPENIA; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 73649097620     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e3181b7f2a3     Document Type: Article

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