Citation

Verma SK, Ahmad S, Shirazi N, Barthwal SP, Khurana D, Chugh M, Gambhir HS. Hum. Exp. Toxicol. 2007; 26(12): 979-981.

Affiliation

Department of Medicine, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0960327107087793

PMID

18375644

Abstract

There have been no case reports on aluminum phosphide-induced pancreatitis in the literature available. In this report, we present the case of a young man who developed acute pancreatitis and probably acute myocarditis following ingestion of aluminum phosphide pellets in the absence of the usual risk factors and after exclusion of other possible causes of pancreatitis. In the absence of re-challenge, we put forth the probable causative association of pancreatitis with aluminum phosphide or phosphine gas, its active pesticidal component.

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