Lethal complications after poisoning with chloroform-case report and literature review

Human and Experimental Toxicology

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 615-622

  Lionte, Cǎtǎlina ^a  

^a GRIGORE T POPA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

alcohol; chloroform; liver failure; rhabdomyolysis

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CHLOROFORM; LIVER ENZYME; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; NARCOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ALCOHOLISM; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMA; FEMALE; HALITOSIS; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; KIDNEY NECROSIS; LETHALITY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TOXICITY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; STEATOSIS; TOXIC HEPATITIS; VIRUS HEPATITIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPLICATION; DRUG INTERACTION; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; FATALITY; INHALATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PANCREAS DISEASE; TOXICITY;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CHLOROFORM; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ETHANOL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INHALATION; KIDNEY DISEASES; LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER FAILURE; MIDDLE AGED; NARCOTICS; NECROSIS; PANCREATIC DISEASES; SELF ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 77953838103     PISSN: 09603271     EISSN: 14770903     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0960327109357142     Document Type: Review

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