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Publications and source records attributed to J Reynes-Manzur.
We present the case of a fifteen months female patient, who accidentally ingested "Endrin Helios" (cyclodiene organochlorinated pesticide) surviving this event. Clinical manifestations were generalized seizures without neither neurologic or hepatic damage. A review is made about the mechanism of intoxication with the toxic and also about the publications dealing with endrin.
Many factors intervene in the diagnosis and treatment of the battered child, including all types of maltreatment. This factors are related with the patient and his social familiar background. An algorithm was established at the Department of Internal Medicine of the National Institute of Pediatrics (INP) during 10 months, that indicates the steps to be followed when a patient with suspicion of maltreatment is hospitalized. The patients were compared with others, treated with the same problem, hospitalized in other services. 37 patients were studied from which, 17 were physically assaulted, 3 sexually abused, 5 socially deprived, 9 psychologically deprived and in 3 patients maltreatment was discharged. The final algorithm signals the routes to be followed when this type of patients enter a pediatric hospital. Battered child; algorithm in.
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