Mercury intoxication: Lack of correlation between symptoms and levels

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 844-846

  Gattineni, Jyothsna ^a   Weiser, Susan ^a   Becker, Amy M ^a   Baum, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrodynia; Catecholamines; Elemental mercury; Hypertension

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE; ENALAPRIL; LABETALOL; SUCCIMER;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHELATION THERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MERCURIALISM; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SCHOOL CHILD;

CHELATING AGENTS; CHILD; HUMANS; MALE; MERCURY POISONING, NERVOUS SYSTEM; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUCCIMER;

EID: 35048856452     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922807303893     Document Type: Article

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