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Elemental Mercury Poisoning Presenting as Hypertension in a Young Child.


25/02/2014

We present here a case of a child with elemental mercury intoxication that raises implications for the differential diagnosis and evaluation of hypertension in children and highlights the need for further evidence based recommendations for treatment of mercury intoxication and interim management of mercury-induced hypertension and acrodynia.

Case Study.

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