Acute Pancreatitis Caused By Mushroom Poisoning

• Main Authors: Samet Karahan Research Fellow (Author), Abdulsamet Erden Research Fellow (Author), Ali Cetinkaya MD (Author), Deniz Avci MD (Author), Adile Irfan Ortakoyluoglu MD (Author), Hatice Karagoz MD (Author), Kadir Bulut MD (Author), Mustafa Basak MD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Of the more than 5000 species of mushrooms known, 100 types are toxic and approximately 10% of these toxic types can cause fatal toxicity. A type of mushroom called Amanita phalloides is responsible for 95% of toxic mushroom poisonings. In this article, we report 2 cases of mushroom poisonings cause...