Mercury Granuloma With Systemic Absorption

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To the Editor.— Mortalities from metallic mercury poisoning are rare. Less than three dozen cases have been described in the literature during the past 80 years. Morbidity, on the other hand, is high. Johnson and Koumides1reported a death as a result of self-administration of between 1 and 2 ml of metallic mercury injected subcutaneously in the left forearm by a 23-year-old female laboratory technician. Others have been more fortunate and, despite localized and systemic symptoms, have survived.2Some patients have had only local complications, and though elevated levels of mercury have been found in the urine, no clinical features of either acute or chronic mercury poisoning ensued. Such a case was reported by Hill3in a 21-year-old psychiatric patient who injected mercury into both her thighs. The majority of cases of mercury poisoning are accidental. Several cases have been described as the result of broken thermometers,

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