Subcutaneous injection of mercury: "Warding off evil"

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1326-1328

  Prasad, Venkat L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Case report; Local abscesses; Mercury injection; Subcutaneous

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ABSCESS; ACCIDENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHELATION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MALE; MARKETING; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL PATIENT; MERCURIALISM; MUSCLE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROTOXICITY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL CARE; SUICIDE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TREATMENT INDICATION; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ABSCESS; ADULT; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; HONDURAS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MERCURY; MERCURY POISONING; SELF MEDICATION;

EID: 4644372502     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6891     Document Type: Article

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