Mercury poisoning from home gold amalgam extraction

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 125-127

  Saleem, Mohamed ^a   Alfred, Sam ^b   Bahnisch, Rebecca A ^a   Coates, Penelope ^a   Kearney, Daniel J ^a  

^a SA Pathology   (Australia)

^b ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMALGAM; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; GOLD; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; MERCURY; OSELTAMIVIR; OXYGEN; PREDNISOLONE; SUCCIMER; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHELATION THERAPY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COUGHING; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DYSPNEA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLUENZA; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LABORATORY TEST; LETHARGY; MALE; MERCURIALISM; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; OXYGEN SATURATION; PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INJURY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOXIC INHALATION; VAPOR; VITAL SIGN;

DENTAL AMALGAM; GOLD ALLOYS; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; MERCURY POISONING; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROSIS, LIPOID; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PNEUMONIA;

EID: 84880656554     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja13.10171     Document Type: Article

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