Citation

De Beer J, Heyndrickx A, Timperman J. Eur. J. Toxicol. Environ. Hyg. 1975; 8(4): 247-251.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1975, Edifor)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1175701

Abstract

The authors relate a suicidal poisoning by nitrites. Post mortem findings are reported as well as a method for the quantitative assessment of NO2- in blood, urine, gastric and intestinal contents, kidney and liver. The concentration values obtained are correlated with the methemoglobin figures which indeed are lethal. The highest concentrations of NO2- are found in the small intestine where the nitrites seem to resist chemical decomposition owing to the reducing properties of the bacterial flora.

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