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A 23 year old male developed abdominal pain,diarrhoea,and vomiting several hours after poisoning with acute triphenyltin intoxication in a suicide attempt.Severe ataxia,dysmetria,nystagmus,and blurring of vision soon supervened.Disturbance of consciousness and confusion devleoped 12 days later and lasted for two months.A delayed sensorimotor polyneuropathy was shown by electrophysiological studies to be due to axonal degeneration and demyelination.The neuropathy rapidly recovered after consciousness was regained. |
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