Intoxication from an accidentally ingested lead shot retained in the gastrointestinal tract

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 491-493

  Gustavsson, Per ^a,b   Gerhardsson, Lars ^c  

^a Stockholm Centre of Public Health   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Blood lead; Diagnosis; Gastrointestinal tract; Health effects; Lead shot

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ANEMIA; ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIARRHEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; LEAD POISONING; MALAISE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; SWEDEN; URINARY EXCRETION;

ADULT; FEMALE; FIREARMS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOREIGN BODIES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; LEAD; LEAD POISONING; MEAT; SWEDEN;

ANIMALIA; CAPREOLUS CAPREOLUS; CERVIDAE; POMACANTHUS MACULOSUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 18144367307     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7594     Document Type: Article

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