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Case Reports
. 1981 Jan;135(1):42-4.
doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1981.02130250030010.

Acute mercury vapor poisoning. Fatality in an infant

M E Moutinho, A L Tompkins, T W Rowland, B B Banson, A H Jackson
Case Reports

Acute mercury vapor poisoning. Fatality in an infant

M E Moutinho et al. Am J Dis Child. 1981 Jan.

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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