Deaths after peritoneal lavage with mercuric chloride solutions: case report and review of the literature.

T, Laundy; Adam, A; Kershaw, J; Rainford, David

doi:10.1136/bmj.289.6437.96

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“…51 A patient who was given 2% mercuric chloride in peritoneal lavage to neutralize cancer cells from a ruptured cyst died on the sixth postoperative day, even though after 5 min all visible £uid was removed by suction. 52 Mercuric chloride, mistaken for mercurous chloride, was applied on cracked nipples of a mother who was breast feeding her infant. Both mother and child developed signs and symptoms of poisoning.…”

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Overview of the clinical toxicity of mercury

Magós¹,

2006

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Mercury is ubiquitous in the environment and therefore every human being, irrespective of age and location, is exposed to one form of mercury or another. The major source of environmental mercury is natural degassing of the earth's crust, but industrial activities can raise exposure to toxic levels directly or through the use or misuse of the liquid metals or synthesized mercurial compounds. The aim of this review is to survey differences in human exposure and in the toxicology of different forms of mercury. It covers not only symptoms and signs observed in poisoned individuals by a clinician but also subclinical effects in population studies, the final evaluation of which is the domain of statisticians.

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