Elemental mercury poisoning caused by subcutaneous and intravenous injection: An unusual self-injury
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Self-administration of mercury by subcutaneous injection.
An unmarried woman of 21 developed diabetes mellitus in 1957 when aged 12. Her subsequent management was often complicated by diabetic ketoacidosis and coma, eventually traced to failure to administer her insulin correctly. At a number of centres in the London area she received psychiatric treatment, with a diagnosis of inadequate immature personality and psychopathic features. In 1962, at the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0971-3026
DOI: 10.4103/0971-3026.63056