Abstract

Zinc phosphide is used as a rodenticide. Sometimes it is used for suicide attempts. Most usual clinical manifestations are nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, irritability, flash pulmonary edema, reduced blood pressure, cardiac dysrhythmias and non-cardiogenic shock. Some other rare presentations are reported. Hereby, we present a case of young woman poisoned with this drug due to suicide attempt who had unexplained transient leukopenia.

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