Stefano Tambuzzi, Laura Vacchiano, Guendalina Gentile, Michele Boracchi, Riccardo Zoja, Arnaldo Stanislao Migliorini
Paraquat (PQ) is one of the most widely used herbicides in the world, and poisoning is generally associated with accidental, suicidal, or homicidal events. Therefore, in the forensic context, PQ could be in various ways involved as a possible cause of death of a subject. However, even though its systemic toxicity is known, the biological effects exerted on individual viscera have been explored only to some extent, especially in case of victim's survival. Therefore, a case concerning a suicidal ingestion of PQ with survival of 3 days was deemed of interest...
September 20, 2023: American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology