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Barium carbonate poisoning mimicking Guillain-Barre syndrome
The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India
|October 5, 2001
Abstract:
Areflexic quadriplegia due to barium carbonate (rat poison) poisoning is described in two young patients. These cases very closely resembled Guillain-Barre syndrome. The various effects of barium carbonate along with the pathogenesis of hypokalaemic paralysis are highlighted.