Acute mercury poisoning by intentional ingestion of mercuric chloride

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 182, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 347-352

  Yoshida, Minoru ^a   Satoh, Hiroshi ^b   Igarashi, Michirou ^a   Akashi, Katsuya ^a   Yamamura, Yukio ^a   Yoshida, Katsumi ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hemodialysis; Inorganic mercury poisoning; Mercuric chloride; Plasma exchange; Renal failure

Indexed keywords

DIMERCAPROL; MERCURIC CHLORIDE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEMATEMESIS; HUMAN; MELENA; MERCURIALISM; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; SELF POISONING; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HALF-LIFE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MERCURY; MERCURY POISONING; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS, CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY; PLASMA EXCHANGE; RENAL DIALYSIS; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 0031442238     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.182.347     Document Type: Article

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