Acute Thallium Poisoning: Series of Ten Cases

Journal of Medical Toxicology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 306-311

  Al Hammouri, Fawzi ^a   Darwazeh, Ghaleb ^a   Said, Anas ^a   Ghosh, Raed Abu ^a  

^a Specialty Hospital Amman   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIDOTE; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CALAMINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; GABAPENTIN; LACTULOSE; OPIATE; PETHIDINE; THALLIUM; TRAMADOL;

ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; ACUTE THALLIUM POISONING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BEDTIME DOSAGE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; ECZEMA; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HEAVY METAL POISONING; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; HYPERMAGNESEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOMAGNESEMIA; INGESTION; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; IRAQ; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRURITUS; RASH; SCHOOL CHILD; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POISONING; THALLIUM;

EID: 82555194059     PISSN: 15569039     EISSN: 19376995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13181-011-0165-3     Document Type: Article

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