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Self-limiting cerebellar ataxia following organophosphate poisoning
M M D Fonseka1, K Medagoda, Y Tillakaratna
1Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, PO Box 6, Ragama, Sri Lanka. mahilalf@lycos.com
Human & Experimental Toxicology
|April 16, 2003
Abstract:
Deliberate self-harm by ingestion of organophosphate insecticides is a common health problem in Sri Lanka. The poisoning results in an initial life-threatening cholinergic crisis and several intermediate and late neurological and psychiatric manifestations. A patient who developed self-limiting cerebellar signs 8 days after ingestion of dimethoate, an organophosphorous insecticide, is reported on.