Mercury tissue concentrations in various organs following a fatal intentional poisoning with mercury chloride

Clinical Toxicology

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 783-784

  Sabbe, Marc B ^a   Desruelles, Didier ^a   Meulemans, Agnes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Mercury; Poisoning; Tissue concentrations

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; BICARBONATE; INFUSION FLUID; MERCURY CHLORIDE; SUCCIMER; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTOPSY; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CYANOSIS; DETERIORATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; RESUSCITATION; SELF POISONING; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH LAVAGE; TISSUE LEVEL; VOMITING;

ADULT; AUTOPSY; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MERCURY POISONING; OVERDOSE; SUICIDE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 52449132586     PISSN: 15563650     EISSN: 15569519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15563650701636382     Document Type: Letter

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