title: Cantharidin poisoning with neurological complications.
abstract: Two cases of cantharidin poisoning are described in which the patients developed the well-known complications of acute renal failure and pseudopolycythaemia. In addition both developed a Guillain-Barré type of flaccid paralysis but spontaneous reversal occurred. Cantharidin poisoning may be responsible for some of the unexplained neurological presentations in Black South Africans.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002193:Cantharidin / Q000506:poisoning*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010243:Paralysis / Q000139:chemically induced*; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced*; D011129:Polyradiculoneuropathy / Q000139:chemically induced*
chemical_list: D002193:Cantharidin