CHRONIC ARSENICISM - CRIMINAL POISONING OR DRUG-INTOXICATION

We report two cases with chronic arsenicism. The first one is a young 37-year-old woman who presents leucomelanoderma, plantar keratoderma, polyneuropathy of the legs and transversal striae of the nails. After investigations, criminal intoxication with arsenic caused by her own s ister was discovered. The second case is a 42-year-old man who had dev eloped plantar keratoderma, arsenical keratoses and two squamous cell epitheliomas 10 years after a 2-year treatment with Fowler's solution for androgenetic alopecia.