Gastroenteritis exhumed.
Nature of presenting symptoms and even signs of disease can lead to a diagnosis that seems routine but is in fact erroneous because a sufficient index of suspicion is not generated in the mind of the physician dealing with the case. A young girl of about 16 years was brought to the Casualty Department, DHQ Hospital Bannu on 12 Sep 2004 with complains of severe vomiting and diarrhoea; the casualty medical officer diagnosed her as a case of acute gastroenteritis.
Shah
Mian Mujahid
MM
Department of Forensic Medicine, Women Medical College, Abbottabad. moon_shaw2000@yahoo.com
Jan
Adil
A
Munawwar
Anjum Zia
AZ
Arif
Muhammad
M
Ahmed
Riaz
R
D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D020261:Arsenic Poisoning / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001152:Arsenicals / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D005759:Gastroenteritis / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D010154:Pakistan; D018454:Spouses
D001152:Arsenicals