Chronic Arsenicism: Criminal Poisoning or Drug Intoxication?
January 1993
in “
Dermatology
”
Studysummary This report describes two cases of chronic arsenicism, one involving criminal poisoning by a sibling and the other associated with prolonged use of Fowler's solution. Our plain-language summary of this paper — not a Tressless recommendation.
The document reported two cases of chronic arsenicism. The first case involved a 37-year-old woman who exhibited symptoms such as leucomelanoderma, plantar keratoderma, polyneuropathy of the legs, and transversal striae of the nails, which were found to be caused by criminal arsenic poisoning by her sister. The second case described a 42-year-old man who developed plantar keratoderma, arsenical keratoses, and two squamous cell epitheliomas 10 years after undergoing a 2-year treatment with Fowler's solution for androgenetic alopecia.
