Intravenous injection of metallic mercury: Case report and course of mercury during chelation therapy with DMPS

Clinical Toxicology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 566-569

  Vallant, Birgit ^a   Deutsch, Josef ^b   Muntean, Michael ^b   Goessler, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b GENERAL HOSPITAL KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

DMPS chelation therapy; Intravenous administration; Metallic mercury; Renal elimination

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; UNITHIOL;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CHELATION THERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG INFARCTION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MERCURIALISM; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SCALP HAIR; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOXICOKINETICS; TREMOR; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; ANTIDOTES; CHELATING AGENTS; CHEST PAIN; ELBOW; HAIR; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LUNG; MALE; MERCURY; MERCURY POISONING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UNITHIOL; X-RAYS;

EID: 46249115688     PISSN: 15563650     EISSN: 15569519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15563650701725102     Document Type: Article

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