Corrosive injury from methacrylic acid in artificial nail primers: Another hazard of fingernail products

Pediatrics

Volumn 102, Issue 4 I, 1998, Pages 979-984

  Linden, Christopher H ^a   Scudder, Douglas W ^a   Dowsett, Robert P ^a,b   Liebelt, Erica L ^c   Woolf, Alan D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; COSMETIC; METHACRYLIC ACID; METHYLENE BLUE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; OMEPRAZOLE; RANITIDINE; SUCRALFATE; SULFADIAZINE SILVER;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEMICAL BURN; CHILD; ESOPHAGUS BURN; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; METHEMOGLOBINEMIA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; TREATMENT INDICATION; VOMITING;

ADULT; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; COSMETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; METHACRYLATES; SKIN; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 0031706610     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.102.4.979     Document Type: Article

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