TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - A chasing dead-end case report: a fatal lead intoxication following an attempted homicide
JO  - Forensic toxicology
A1  - Lelièvre, Bénédicte
A1  - Triau, Stephane
A1  - Codron, Philippe
A1  - Mariau, Yoran
A1  - Papin-Lefebvre, Frederique
A1  - Collin, Alexandre
A1  - Drevin, Guillaume
A1  - Le Roux, Gaël
A1  - Briet, Marie
A1  - Boels, David
A1  - Letournel, Franck
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - In developed countries, lead intoxication is decreasing in adults as sources of contamination were considerably reduced. Hence, cases of lead encephalopathy have become scarcer. We report the case of a 50-year-old woman who developed a systemic intoxication due the persistence of lead fragments in her abdomen and back. The patient was shot with homemade gun bullets, which were immediately surgically removed. During the eight following months, she presented progressive worsening signs of systemic and cerebral lead intoxication. On admission to hospital, her blood lead concentration was of 1650 µg/L. Despite surgeries and the use of lead chelators, she died 8 days later.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1860-8965
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11419-019-00519-5
ID  - ref1
ER  -