Sarkar Sumantra, Basu Kaushambi, Das Jayati, Datta Supratim
Department of Pediatric Medicine, IPGMER and SSKM Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
J Pediatr Neurosci. 2017 Oct-Dec;12(4):353-355. doi: 10.4103/jpn.JPN_84_17.
Accidental poisoning with Abrus precatorius (AP) can rarely produce neurological complication due to its toxic principle "Abrin". The authors report such a case in a 2-year old child, who subsequently developed central pontine myelinolysis, an association, to the best of the author's knowledge, has never been reported in literature.