PERSISTENT MERCURY IN NERVE CELLS 16 YEARS AFTER METALLIC MERCURY POISONING
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Persistent mercury in nerve cells 16 years after metallic mercury poisoning.
A male subject, after exposure to mercury metal at work in 1968, developed classical signs of mercurialism from which he made a slow clinical recovery. He subsequently developed psychoneurotic symptoms and became an alcoholic; he never returned to work and died in 1984. No histological changes relevant to mercury intoxication were found in the brain, but staining by Danscher & Schroeder's metho...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0305-1846
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2990.1988.tb01336.x