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A case of acute mercury vapour poisoning.
Introduction Mercury poisoning has been recognized for over a century. Evans' (1962) report of poisoning due to chronic exposure to mercury vapour in industry is well known. Polson and Tattersall (1969) have described other circumstances including the ingestion of mercurous and mercuric chlorides, the subcutaneous, intravenous and intra-arterial injection of elemental mercury and acute exposure...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1975
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.51.596.428