Assessment and management of elemental mercury poisoning—a case report

We describe a patient with elemental mercury aspiration and retention in the appendix after elemental mercury ingestion. Conservative management was proved to be successful for the removal of the mercury from the appendix while we do not suggest bronchoalveolar lavage in cases of small amount elemen...

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Autores principales: Bazoukis, George, Papadatos, Stamatis S., Michelongona, Paschalia, Fragkou, Archodula, Yalouris, Athanasios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5290591/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28174636
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.811
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author Bazoukis, George
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spelling pubmed-52905912017-02-07 Assessment and management of elemental mercury poisoning—a case report Bazoukis, George Papadatos, Stamatis S. Michelongona, Paschalia Fragkou, Archodula Yalouris, Athanasios Clin Case Rep Case Reports We describe a patient with elemental mercury aspiration and retention in the appendix after elemental mercury ingestion. Conservative management was proved to be successful for the removal of the mercury from the appendix while we do not suggest bronchoalveolar lavage in cases of small amount elemental mercury aspiration. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-01-17 /pmc/articles/PMC5290591/ /pubmed/28174636 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.811 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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