Organophosphate Insecticide Poisoning and Parkinsonism

Abstract

Extrapyramidal parkinsonism in a 14 year-old boy developed 5 days after the accidental ingestion of a raw eggplant sprayed with the organophosphate dimethoate (Rogor), in a report from Meyer Children Hospital, Rappaport School of Medicine, Haifa, Israel.

Keywords

• parkinsonism with organophosphate insecticide
• plasma cholinesterase
• obidoxime hydrochloride