TY - JOUR PY - 2005// TI - Epidemiological aspects of acute childhood poisoning among patients attending a hospital at Kolkata, India JO - Indian journal of public health A1 - Basu, K. A1 - Mondal, R. K. A1 - Banerjee, D. P. SP - 25 EP - 26 VL - 49 IS - 1 N2 - A retrospective study from a tertiary care teaching hospital in Kolkata revealed 3.6% of total paediatric admissions were due to poisoning. Majority of the cases included oral/chemical poisoning followed by biological/envennomation. Kerosene was the commonest among all poisoning. Most of the cases were accidental. LA - SN - 0019-557X UR - http://dx.doi.org/ ID - ref1 ER -