Aluminum phosphide poisoning known as rice tablet: A common toxicity in North Iran

Indian Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 143-150

  Hosseinian, A ^a   Pakravan, N ^a   Rafiei, A ^b   Feyzbakhsh, S ^a  

^a MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Aluminum phosphide; pesticides; poisoning; rice tablet; suicide

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM PHOSPHIDE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGRICULTURE; APNEA; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CYANOSIS; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISORDERS OF ACID BASE BALANCE; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; IRAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; METABOLIC ALKALOSIS; MORALITY; NAUSEA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; RESPIRATORY ALKALOSIS; SEIZURE; SUICIDE; SURVIVAL; TEACHING HOSPITAL; VOMITING;

ACIDOSIS; ADULT; ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; IRAN; MALE; ORYZA SATIVA; PESTICIDES; PHOSPHINES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84871992659     PISSN: 00195359     EISSN: 19983654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5359.104777     Document Type: Article

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