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<journal-id>1409-0015</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Medicina Legal de Costa Rica]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Med. leg. Costa Rica]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1409-0015</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Asociación Costarricense de Medicina Forense]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1409-00152020000200053</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Intoxicación por tolueno]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Toluene poisoning]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Rodríguez Padilla]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Carolina]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Costa Rica Departamento de Medicina Legal Poder Judicial]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Costa Rica</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>37</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>53</fpage>
<lpage>62</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1409-00152020000200053&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1409-00152020000200053&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1409-00152020000200053&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen El ser humano está inmerso en un entorno donde inhala, ingiere o absorbe muchas sustancias químicas, de las cuales toman relevancia las exposiciones en los lugares de trabajo y las que causan la muerte en la práctica médico forense. El tolueno es un inhibidor neuronal asociado con dan&#771;o progresivo del sistema nervioso central y periférico, su toxicidad puede ocurrir por inhalación involuntaria o deliberada y puede llevar incluso a la muerte. Se realizó una revisión bibliográfica en diferentes bases de datos, de los artículos publicados referentes al tema de los últimos ocho años, con el objetivo de revisar las características del químico, el metabolismo, las intoxicaciones agudas y las crónicas, así como sus implicaciones letales. Se concluye que para mejorar la pericia médico legal, al valorar casos de intoxicacion por tolueno se deben de contemplar los criterios de causalidad en los casos de enfermedad laboral y en sospecha de causa de muerte es fundamentantal el resultado toxicológico ante la ausencia de hallazgos específicos en la autopsia.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract The human being is immersed in an environment where he inhales, ingests or absorbs many chemical substances, in forensic medical practice the exposures in the workplace and those that cause death take on relevance. Toluene is a neuronal inhibitor associated with progressive damage of the central and peripheral nervous system, its toxicity can occur by involuntary or deliberate inhalation and can even lead to death. A bibliographic review was carried out in different databases, of the published articles referring to the subject of the last eight years, with the objective of reviewing the characteristics of the chemical, the metabolism, both acute and chronic poisoning and its lethal implications. It is concluded that to improve the legal medical expertise when assessing cases of toluene poisoning, causality criteria must be considered in cases of occupational disease and in suspected cases of death the toxicology result is fundamental in the absence of specific findings in the autopsy.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[tolueno]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[solventes orgánicos]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[medicina legal]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Poisoning]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[toluene]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[organic solvents]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[legal medicine]]></kwd>
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