A patient with postoperative mercury contamination of the peritoneum

Journal of Toxicology - Clinical Toxicology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 175-180

  Haas, Nelson S ^a   Shih, Richard ^b   Gochfeld, Michael ^c  

^a North Country Occupational Medicine   (United States)

^b MORRISTOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chelation; Elemental mercury; Gasteroenterology; Neurotoxicology; Radiography

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; SUCCIMER;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHELATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EXPOSURE; FALLING; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FORMICATION; GAIT DISORDER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; IRRITABILITY; LUNG CARCINOMA; MERCURIALISM; PERITONEUM; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRURITUS; SURVIVAL RATE; URINARY EXCRETION; VERTIGO;

CHELATING AGENTS; CREATINE; CROHN DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; IRRITABLE MOOD; MERCURY; MERCURY POISONING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; PERITONEUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SUCCIMER;

EID: 0037279397     PISSN: 07313810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/CLT-120019134     Document Type: Article

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