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Chronic arsenicism: criminal poisoning or drug-intoxication? Report of two cases
U Sass1, E Grosshans, J M Simonart
1Dermatological Department, Centre Hospitalier Etterbeek-Ixelles, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Dermatology (Basel, Switzerland)
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
We report two cases with chronic arsenicism. The first one is a young 37-year-old woman who presents leucomelanoderma, plantar keratoderma, polyneuropathy of the legs and transversal striae of the nails. After investigations, criminal intoxication with arsenic caused by her own sister was discovered. The second case is a 42-year-old man who had developed plantar keratoderma, arsenical keratoses and two squamous cell epitheliomas 10 years after a 2-year treatment with Fowler's solution for androgenetic alopecia.