Acute human Glufosinate-containing herbicide poisoning

Clinical Toxicology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 396-402

  Mao, Yan Chiao ^a,b   Hung, Dong Zong ^c,d   Wu, Ming Ling ^a,e   Tsai, Wei Jen ^a   Wang, Lee Min ^b,e,f   Ger, Jiin ^a   Deng, Jou Fang ^a,d   Yang, Chen Chang ^a,e  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acute poisoning; Glufosinate; Herbicide

Indexed keywords

HERBICIDE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; AGITATION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; AMNESIA; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL STUDY; COMA; CONFUSION; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DYSPNEA; FASCICULATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MOUTH ULCER; NAUSEA; RASH; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; RISK; SEIZURE; SHOCK; SORE THROAT; TACHYCARDIA; TAIWAN; TREMOR; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; AMINOBUTYRIC ACIDS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HERBICIDES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POISON CONTROL CENTERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUICIDE; TAIWAN;

EID: 84861037736     PISSN: 15563650     EISSN: 15569519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15563650.2012.676646     Document Type: Review

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