Acute Alopecia: Evidence to Thallium Poisoning

Thallium is a toxic heavy metal often involved in criminal poisonings and occasionally in accidental poisoning. Here, we report a case of acute, nonintentional thallium poisoning due to thallium-contaminated alternative medicine for its rarity and to create awareness about the combination of rapid,...

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Autores principales: Senthilkumaran, Subramanian, Balamurugan, Namasivayam, Jena, Narendra Nath, Menezes, Ritesh G, Thirumalaikolundusubramanian, Ponniah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5514793/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28761262
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijt.ijt_82_16
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author Senthilkumaran, Subramanian
Balamurugan, Namasivayam
Jena, Narendra Nath
Menezes, Ritesh G
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Balamurugan, Namasivayam
Jena, Narendra Nath
Menezes, Ritesh G
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description Thallium is a toxic heavy metal often involved in criminal poisonings and occasionally in accidental poisoning. Here, we report a case of acute, nonintentional thallium poisoning due to thallium-contaminated alternative medicine for its rarity and to create awareness about the combination of rapid, diffuse alopecia with neurologic and gastrointestinal symptoms among practitioners, professionals, public, and policymakers.
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spelling pubmed-55147932017-07-31 Acute Alopecia: Evidence to Thallium Poisoning Senthilkumaran, Subramanian Balamurugan, Namasivayam Jena, Narendra Nath Menezes, Ritesh G Thirumalaikolundusubramanian, Ponniah Int J Trichology Case Report Thallium is a toxic heavy metal often involved in criminal poisonings and occasionally in accidental poisoning. Here, we report a case of acute, nonintentional thallium poisoning due to thallium-contaminated alternative medicine for its rarity and to create awareness about the combination of rapid, diffuse alopecia with neurologic and gastrointestinal symptoms among practitioners, professionals, public, and policymakers. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5514793/ /pubmed/28761262 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijt.ijt_82_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 International Journal of Trichology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Acute Alopecia: Evidence to Thallium Poisoning
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