Lead poisoning in infancy.
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Lead poisoning in infancy and childhood is a well-recognized and apparently common condition in America. In Holt's 'Diseases of Infancy and Childhood ' (1940) it is stated that 'lead poisoning is one of the common and most serious forms of intoxication recognized in childhood.' Byers and Lord (1943) reviewing the records of the Children's Hospital, Boston, found 128 cases of this condition during a ten year period. During the last 15 years a large number of papers on this subject have appeared in the American journals, many of them reporting a series of cases. In Great Britain, on the other hand, lead poisoning appears to be comparatively rare, or at least rarely recognized, in the early years of life, if the infrequency of published reports may be taken as a sound guide. Gordon and Whitehead (1949) have recently reported one case in an infant aged 6 months, Findlay (1935) reported one case in an infant of 3 months, and Rodgers, Peck, and Jupe (1934) one case in a child aged 2 years. The Index Medicus contains no record of any other papers on this subject in the British literature during the past 15 years. The following report of a case of lead encephalopathy in a young infant may therefore be of some interest, and serve to draw attention to the diagnosis of a condition which may well be missed unless the possibility of its occurrence is constantly borne in mind.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Archives of disease in childhood
دوره 25 123 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1950