Journal of the Indian Society of Toxicology

  • Year: 2009
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 2

An Unusual Case of Fatal Suicidal Nitric Acid Ingestion

  • Author:
  • EJ Rodrigues1, MP Kantak, SS Banaulikar1
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 28 to 29

1Dept of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Goa Medical College & Hospital, Bambolim, Goa – 403202.

* (Author for correspondence): Dept of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Goa Medical College & Hospital, Bambolim, Goa – 403202. Email: mpkantak@yahoo.co.in

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Abstract

An unusual case of suicidal nitric acid ingestion is being reported in a 24 year-old factory worker, with classical postmortem features of xanthoproteic reaction and necrotic perforation of stomach.

Keywords

Nitric acid, Xanthoproteic reaction, Gastric perforation