A. Stift, J. Friedl, F. Laengle
Mar 12, 1998
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The New England journal of medicine
Abstract
To the Editor: Chromium compounds are commonly used as oxidizing agents in industrial processes and in technical-research laboratories. Oral ingestion of potassium dichromate usually leads to rapid death, regardless of immediate treatment attempts.1 Acute mucosal damage, vomiting, and diarrhea are followed by renal and hepatic failure.2 The lowest reported lethal dose is 0.1 g.3,4 We report on a 16-year-old boy in whom vomiting, diffuse abdominal pain, and acute renal and liver failure developed in January 1996, after he had ingested an unknown quantity of potassium dichromate in a suicide attempt. He obtained the poison from the chemical laboratory at . . .