@article{ref1,
title="Intoxication by the chickling pea (Lathyrus sativus): nervous system and skeletal findings",
journal="Archives of toxicology, supplement",
year="1983",
author="Cohn, D. F. and Streifler, M.",
volume="6",
number="",
pages="190-193",
abstract="Two hundred patients with chronic neurolathyrism were examined 25-35 years after the appearance of signs and symptoms of intoxication of the chickling pea. Their daily food intake, in a German forced labor camp during World War II, consisted of 400 g Lathyrus sativus peas cooked in water plus 200 g bread baked of barley and straw. Apart from the classic signs of neurolathyrism, i.e., a spastic paraparesis, in five cases, the skeletal findings observed were similar to experimental osteolathyrism. There was an absence of ossification centers of the iliac creasts, ischial tuberosities and vertebrae; and bowing with thickening of the femoral shaft also occurred. These bony changes in human lathyrism have not been described before.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0171-9750",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}