Citation

Marino G, Anastopoulos H, Woolf AD. J. Occup. Med. 1994; 36(6): 637-641.

Affiliation

Department of Medicine, New England Deaconness Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8071726

Abstract

We present the case of a worker who was accidentally exposed (inhalational and dermal routes) to the chemicals dimethylacetamide and ethylenediamine for 90 minutes in a confined space. Clinical effects included delirium, hallucinations, skin burns, cellulitis, bilateral conjunctivitis, hepatitis, secondary coagulopathy, rhabdomyolysis, and a grade 2 esophagitis. Urinary monomethylacetamide levels 6 days after the exposure were 61 ppm.

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