Professional paper
Intoxications with dinitroorthocresol
M. Šovljanski
; Department for Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Novi Sad
D. Popović
; Department for Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Novi Sad
M. Tasić
; Department for Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Novi Sad
Radmila Šovljanski
; Department for Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Novi Sad
Abstract
The increasing use of DNOC in Voivodina contributes to the occurrence of suicidal and accidental intoxications with this compound. It is assumed that beside other damages DNOC may affect the act of swallowing. The only two cases of asphyxia caused by choking with a bolus of food do not allow a definite interpretation, but are presented here as a warning of the possibility of choking in DNOC intoxications after acute symptoms of poisoning already disappeared. The established histologic changes in the CNS are a proof of pathological lesions in the suprabulbar parts of the white and gray mass. This is the anatomic ground for the development of the clinical picture of diffuse lesion of the central neuron, which was clinically verified. The intoxication with DNOC affecting the bulbar nuclei, i. g. the act of swallowing, gives the picture of pseudobulbar damage with disphagia as the leading symptom.
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Hrčak ID:
170399
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Publication date:
16.3.1972.
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