Being alive after a severe inorganic mercury intoxication

European Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 169, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 625-628

  Erkek, Nilgun ^a   Senel, Saliha ^b   Sarac, Avni ^b   Ertan, Ulker ^b   Karacan, Can Demir ^b  

^a DR SAMI ULUS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b Dr Sami Ulus Children's Health and Diseases Training and Research Center   (Turkey)

Author keywords

BAL; Children; DMSA; Inorganic mercury; Mercury; Mercury intoxication

Indexed keywords

DIMERCAPROL; MERCURY; SUCCIMER;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; EPISTAXIS; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATEMESIS; HEMATOCHEZIA; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; KIDNEY HYPERTROPHY; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MERCURIALISM; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TENDON REFLEX; VOMITING;

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MERCURY POISONING;

EID: 77952093858     PISSN: 03406199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00431-009-1073-2     Document Type: Article

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