Lead poisoning from a toy necklace

Pediatrics

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1096-1099

  VanArsdale, Jessica L ^a   Leiker, Richard D ^b   Kohn, Mel ^b   Merritt, T Allen ^c,d   Horowitz, B Zane ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^c ST CHARLES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Oregon Commission for Children and Families   (United States)

Author keywords

Lead; Lead foreign bodies; Lead poisoning

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; CHELATING AGENT; DIMERCAPROL; EDETATE CALCIUM DISODIUM; EDETIC ACID; LEAD; SUCCIMER; TIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHELATION; CHILD; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPY; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VENOUS BLOOD; VOMITING; BLOOD; CHELATION THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIOGRAPHY; RECREATION; REVIEW; SAFETY; STOMACH;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANEMIA; CHELATION THERAPY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; LEAD; LEAD POISONING; MALE; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; STOMACH;

EID: 16644377587     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 00314005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2004-0361     Document Type: Article

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