Long-term pulmonary and systemic toxicity following intravenous mercury injection

Archives of Toxicology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 59-62

  Dell'Omo, Marco ^a   Muzi, Giacomo ^a   Bernard, Alfred ^b   Filiberto, Sabrina ^a   Lauwerys, Robert R ^b   Abbritti, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Intravenous injection; Mercury; Pulmonary embolism; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPERMIA; CASE REPORT; ELECTRONEUROGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG TOXICITY; MALE; NEUROPATHY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; TOXICITY;

ADULT; CARBON DIOXIDE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LUNG; MALE; MERCURY; MERCURY POISONING; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OXYGEN; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SPERM MOTILITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031413081     PISSN: 03405761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002040050469     Document Type: Article

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