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Suicide attempt with injection of insecticide in both wrists
Istemi Yucel1, Yavuz Demiraran, Murat Alper
1Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, University of Abant Izzet Baysal, Duzce Faculty of Medicine, Duzce, Turkey.
Orthopedics
|March 19, 2009
Abstract:
Organophosphates that are commonly used in agriculture, houses, gardens, and in veterinary medicine worldwide, may be used for suicidal purposes. But suicide attempt with self-injection of organophosphates is rare. This article presents a case of a suicide attempt of a young man with self-injection of an organophosphate insecticide (dichlorvos) to both his wrists.
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