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[Case report of acute intoxication from intravenous injection of petroleum]
A R Aguémon1, A T Diallo, O Biaou
1Service polyvalent d'anesthésie et de réanimation, CNHU, Cotonou, Bénin.
Annales Francaises D'Anesthesie Et De Reanimation
|February 24, 2001
Abstract:
A 18-year-old patient injected intravenously 2.5 mL of paraffin oil into the right upper limb. It caused a local thrombophlebitis with a slow evolution. A collapsus occurred on the sixth day. The authors obtained a clinical recovery of the limb after heparine and oral anticoagulation.