Citation

Sanz P, Reig R, Borras L, Martinez J, Máñez R, Corbella J. Hum. Toxicol. 1988; 7(2): 199-201.

Affiliation

Department of Legal Medicine and Toxicology, Hospital Clínico y Provincial, School of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Spain.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group -- Palgrave-Macmillan)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3378810

Abstract

1. A case of fatal Amanita phalloides poisoning in a 14-year-old boy is described. 2. The patient presented severe acute liver dysfunction, disseminated intravascular coagulation and refractory hypoxaemia, and died on the 9th day after mushroom ingestion. 3. Post-mortem examination revealed mesenteric venous thrombosis, massive liver necrosis and haemorrhagic pulmonary alveolitis.

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