Category: Toxicology
Keywords: cyanide, carbon monoxide, methanol, hypoglycemia (PubMed Search)
Posted: 2/26/2015 by Fermin Barrueto
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Patient has the following Head CT, what is your differential diagnosis? There are only a few characteristic toxins that can cause this type of finding on CT.
Bilateral Basal Ganglia Infarcts think:
Cyanide
Carbon Monoxide
Hypoglycemia
Methanol
Hypoxia and Uncouplers of Oxidative Phsophorylation can cause this