Nephrotic syndrome of minimal change disease following exposure to mercury-containing skin-lightening cream

Annals of Saudi Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 257-261

  Zhang, Lin ^a,b   Liu, Fuyou ^a   Peng, Youming ^a   Sun, Lin ^a   Chen, Chunguo ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b First Hospital of Changsha   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPIGMENTING AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID; MERCURY; PREDNISONE; UNITHIOL; MERCURY DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; HEAVY METAL BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MINIMAL CHANGE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PROTEINURIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE LEVEL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; NEPHROSIS, LIPOID; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ADULT; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; NEPHROSIS, LIPOID; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PROTEINURIA; SKIN LIGHTENING PREPARATIONS; TIME FACTORS; UNITHIOL;

EID: 84910629346     PISSN: 02564947     EISSN: 09754466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5144/0256-4947.2014.257     Document Type: Article

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