Colchicine Poisoning
- 1 June 2001
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology
- Vol. 22 (2), 203-206
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00000433-200106000-00020
Abstract
Deaths resulting from the oral ingestion of colchicine are occasionally associated with suicides and therapeutic toxicity. However, homicidal deaths in which this drug is used are extremely rare. Two homicides in which colchicine was used are reported.Keywords
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