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| Year : 2011 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 355-356 |
Acute hepatic failure due to yellow phosphorus ingestion
Anupama Mauskar, Kunal Mehta, Leena Nagotkar, Preeti Shanbag
Department of Pediatrics, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai, India
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Anupama Mauskar
Department of Pediatrics, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0253-7613.81500
We report a case of three year old girl, who was brought to hospital for accidental consumption of rat-poison (3% phosphorus). The patient was asymptomatic for first 48 hours. Later on she developed the symptoms of hepatic failure. She was managed conservatively and was discharged after 14 days.
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