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To the Editor: Chromium compounds are commonly used as oxidizing agents in industrial processes and in technical-research laboratories. Oral ingestion of potassium dichromate usually leads to rapid death, regardless of immediate treatment attempts.¹ Acute mucosal damage, vomiting, and diarrhea are followed by renal and hepatic failure.² The lowest reported lethal dose is 0.1 g.^3,4

We report on a 16-year-old boy in whom vomiting, diffuse abdominal pain, and acute renal and liver failure developed in January 1996, after he had ingested an unknown quantity of potassium dichromate in a suicide attempt. He obtained the poison from the chemical laboratory at his . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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