Deaths due to corrosive ingestion: a 10-year retrospective study.

Objectives: Evaluation of the substances used, macroscopic and microscopic autopsy findings, and the manner of corrosive ingestion deaths in Istanbul are aimed in this study.

Methods: The autopsy records of the corrosive ingestion cases in Istanbul, Turkey, between 1992 and 2001 are investigated in our retrospective descriptive study.

Results: The cause of death was determined as "corrosive injury" in 23 (0.