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Case Reports
. 1989 Jun;41(3):255-60.
doi: 10.1016/0379-0738(89)90218-1.

A fatal case of oral ingestion of toluene

K Ameno  1 , C Fuke, S Ameno, T Kiriu, K Sogo, I Ijiri
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Case Reports

A fatal case of oral ingestion of toluene

K Ameno et al. Forensic Sci Int. 1989 Jun.

Abstract

A 51-year-old male ingested orally a large quantity of toluene and died about 30 min later. The presence of toluene in body fluids and tissues was confirmed by gas chromatography and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. Tissue distribution of toluene showed that the liver detected the highest content of toluene (433.5 micrograms/g), except for the stomach contents, followed by pancreas (88.2 micrograms/g), brain (85.3 micrograms/g), heart (62.6 micrograms/g), blood (27.6 micrograms/g), fat (12.2 micrograms/g) and finally cerebrospinal fluid (11.1 micrograms/g).

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