Two-year follow-up of two patients after severe thallium intoxication

Human and Experimental Toxicology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 263-272

  Pelclova D ^a,d   Urban, P ^a,b   Ridzon P ^a,c   Aenholdova Z ^a   Lukas E ^a   Diblik P ^a   Lacina, L ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

^c FAKULTNÍ THOMAYEROVA NEMOCNICE   (Czech Republic)

^d Charles University ^*  (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Alopecia; Hair analysis; Polyneuropathy; Prussian blue challenge; Thallium; Visual impairment

Indexed keywords

FERRIC FERROCYANIDE; THALLIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; BLINDNESS; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLURRED VISION; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL SCOTOMA; COLOR BLINDNESS; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HAIR ANALYSIS; HAIR LOSS; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTOXICATION; LEG PAIN; LOW BACK PAIN; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MYALGIA; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC DISK ANOMALY; PARESTHESIA; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSTERNAL PAIN; THALLIUM INTOXICATION; TINNITUS; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; ALOPECIA; ANIMALS; ANTIDOTES; CRIME; DOGS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FERROCYANIDES; HAIR; HUMANS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; POISONING; SENSATION DISORDERS; THALLIUM; VISION DISORDERS; VISION TESTS; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349241752     PISSN: 09603271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0960327109106487     Document Type: Article

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