Citation

Moutinho ME, Tompkins AL, Rowland TW, Banson BB, Jackson AH. Am. J. Dis. Child. (1960) 1981; 135(1): 42-44.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1981, American Medical Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7457442

Abstract

A 7-month-old girl succumbed to respiratory failure following exposure to high-density mercury vapor produced by heating of the metal in the home. Her course typified inhalation mercury toxic reaction, which in its focus on pulmonary damage creates a clinical picture distinct from that of chronic and oral mercury poisoning.

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