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Citation

Skavić P, Duraković Z, Nestić M. J. Forensic Sci. 2018; 63(1): 321-325.

Affiliation

Toxicology Laboratory, Department of Forensic Medicine and Criminology, University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, American Society for Testing and Materials, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/1556-4029.13518

PMID

28407445

Abstract

This study presents two cases of lethal bentazone poisonings, their clinical presentation, the course of the disease and the autopsy findings. The first is a 50-year-old male who had sprayed corn with a solution of bentazone and was admitted to the hospital with sweating, fever, nausea, vomiting of aqueous and hemorrhagic content, and bloody, watery stools. He was treated according to the symptoms including extracorporeal hemodialysis, but eventually suffered from multiorgan failure (acute respiratory failure, acute liver failure, coagulopathy, acute renal failure, metabolic acidosis, and gastrointestinal bleeding) and died 11.35 h after admittance. The cause of death was probable bentazone intoxication. The second case, also a male, aged 49 who committed suicide by ingesting a bentazone solution. He was transferred to the hospital prostrated and cyanotic and died 14.15 h after admittance despite all efforts by the hospital staff. The cause of death was acute bentazone intoxication.

© 2017 American Academy of Forensic Sciences.


Language: en

Keywords

accident; bentazone; forensic science; herbicide; lethal outcome; poisoning; suicide

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