Assessment and management of elemental mercury poisoning—a case report [PDF]
Clinical Case Reports (discontinued), 2017 Key Clinical Message We describe a patient with elemental mercury aspiration and retention in the appendix after elemental mercury ingestion. Conservative management was proved to be successful for the removal of the mercury from the appendix while we do
Stamatis S Papadatos, George Bazoukis
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Effective Decontamination and Remediation After Elemental Mercury Exposure: A Case Report in the United States. [PDF]
J Prev Med Public Health, 2021 Elemental mercury exposure can result in significant toxicity. Source decontamination and remediation are often required after larger elemental mercury exposures, but the details of these processes are infrequently reported. In the case described herein,
Johnson-Arbor K, Schultz B.
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Strictly-controlled techniques are required in laparoscopic appendectomy for elemental mercury sequestration in the appendix: a case report. [PDF]
J Int Med Res, 2023 Elemental mercury impaction in the appendix can cause subsequent local and systemic complications. We present a case of a teenage boy who ingested approximately 10 mL of elemental mercury, resulting in residual mercury sequestration in the appendix after
Yao G +5 more
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Characteristics and treatment of elemental mercury intoxication: A case series. [PDF]
Health Sci Rep, 2021 Background and aims Elemental mercury toxicity is a rare condition which can be difficult to diagnose due to its nonspecific signs and symptoms. The purpose of this investigation is to describe the presenting characteristics and treatment of adult and ...
Johnson-Arbor K, Tefera E, Farrell J.
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Danger in the Classroom: Elemental Mercury Poisoning in Primary School Students. [PDF]
Eurasian J MedBackground: Mercury is a heavy metal that has the potential to exert a deleterious effect on human health. The purpose of this article is threefold: firstly, to raise awareness of the issue; secondly, to offer solutions; and thirdly, to contribute to ...
Vural T, Kök AN, Ural B, Kılınç BB.
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Intravenous injection of elemental mercury: A report of two cases
Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery, 2008 Two cases of intravenous injection of elemental mercury are described in this report. One patient succumbed and the other remains asymptomatic two years after the surgical removal of all the injected mercury.
Gopalakrishna A, Pavan Kumar T
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Amorphous Molybdenum Selenide Nanosheet as an Efficient Trap for the Permanent Sequestration of Vapor-Phase Elemental Mercury. [PDF]
Adv Sci (Weinh), 2019 The key challenge of vapor‐phase elemental mercury (Hg0) sequestration is the rational design of a sorbent with abundantly available ligands that exhibit excellent affinity toward Hg0 to simultaneously achieve a high uptake capacity and rapid capture ...
Yang Z +8 more
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Identification of mercury species in spent fluorescent lamps and mercury recovery by distillation
Energy Reports, 2023 The discarding of spent fluorescent lamps, one of the most significant sources of mercury usage in industry, might cause mercury release into the environment when suffering from breakage.
Tong Li +3 more
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Elemental mercury poisoning caused by subcutaneous and intravenous injection: An unusual self-injury
Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging, 2010 Elemental mercury poisoning most commonly occurs through vapor inhalation as mercury is well absorbed through the lungs. Administering subcutaneous and intravenous elemental mercury is very uncommon but with only a few isolated case reports in the ...
Wale Jaywant, Yadav Pankaj, Garg Shairy
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In situ acid etching boosts mercury accommodation capacities of transition metal sulfides
Nature Communications, 2023 There is an urgent need to develop efficient strategies to remove elemental mercury from industrial flue gases. Here the authors develop a simple, versatile, and scalable strategy to obtain a 100-fold enhancement of the elemental mercury accommodation ...
Hailong Li +9 more
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