Acute Symptoms after a Community Hydrogen Fluoride Spill

Table 1 Details of the 12 hospitalized patients

Age	Gender	Department	Date of admission	Date of discharge	Chief complaints	Diagnosis	Exposure characteristics	Clinical findings
30	M	IP^†	9/28	9/29	Dyspnea	Gas inhalation	Worker	No abnormal findings
51	F	IP	10/3	10/10	Hemoptysis	Bronchitis	Adjacent resident	Bronchoscopy ; hyperemic, both bronchi edematous
52	M	IP	10/3	10/8	Blood-tinged sputum	Bronchitis	Governmental officials	Bronchoscopy ; both bronchi hyperemic
44	F	IP	10/9	10/12	Dyspnea	Gas inhalation	Worker	No abnormal findings
52	F	IP	10/16	10/25	Dyspnea	Toxic effect of HF^*	Adjacent resident	Anxiety
38	M	IP	10/24	10/26	Hemoptysis	Bronchitis	Worker	Bronchoscopy ; both bronchi hyperemic
44	F	IG^‡	10/6	10/10	Nausea	Gastric ulcer	Adjacent resident	GIF⁺⁺; gastric ulcer
68	F	IG	10/9	10/12	Nausea	Gas inhalation	Adjacent resident	GIF; chronic atropic gastritis
25	F	ENT^§	10/6	10/11	Sore throat	Acute pharyngotonsillitis	Worker	Pharyngeal injection
57	F	NR^‖	10/4	10/8	Numbness	Numbness	Other resident (Intake of contaminated crops)	No abnormal findings
79	F	NR	10/9	10/12	Headache	Chronic tension headache	Adjacent resident	No abnormal findings
71	F	PS^**	10/8	10/8	Lip pain	Chemical burn on lower lip	Other Resident (intake of contaminated crops)	Swelling, erythema on lower lip

^*Hydrogen fluoride, ^†Internal medicine, pulmonology, ^‡Internal medicine, gastroenterology, ^§ENT; Otorhinolaryngology, ^‖Neurology, ^**Plastric surgery, ⁺⁺Gastro-intestinal fiberscopy.

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