Aluminium phosphide poisoning autopsy findings.

ABSTRACT

At prospective study to observe the gross and histopathological findings in Aluminium Phosphide Poisoning was undertaken on medicolegal autopsy cases brought to the department of Forensic Medicine. Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal. The study was undertaken, as Aluminium Phosphide Poisoning has become the commonest poisoning in central India over the last few years. 50 chemically confirmed autopsy cases were included in the present study and were examined grossly in detail and samples of tissue from various organs were stained by haemotoxylin eosin and observed microscopically. Several gross autopsy findings have been observed and are included in this paper. The present study is the largest autopsy series reported on Aluminum Phosphide, which includes the histopathological findings of various organs. and observations made earlier by the workers have also been compared.