A child with elemental mercury poisoning and unusual brain MRI findings

Clinical Toxicology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 85-88

  Abbaslou, Parvin ^a   Zaman, Talieh ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Acrodynia; Brain MRI; Mercury poisoning

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CHELATING AGENT; DIMERCAPROL; MERCURY; NIFEDIPINE; PARACETAMOL; PENICILLAMINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PROPRANOLOL; ANTIDOTE;

ACRODYNIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOODY DIARRHEA; BONE PAIN; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; CHELATION THERAPY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DIAPHORESIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSOMNIA; IRRITABILITY; KNEE PAIN; LABORATORY TEST; LEG PAIN; MALE; MERCURIALISM; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAPULAR RASH; PARESTHESIA; PRURITUS; PUTAMEN; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; URINALYSIS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHILD; DRUG EFFECT; EXPOSURE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL DISORDER;

ACRODYNIA; ANTIDOTES; BRAIN; CHELATING AGENTS; CHILD; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MERCURY POISONING; PENICILLAMINE; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 33644881104     PISSN: 15563650     EISSN: 15569519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15563650500394969     Document Type: Article

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