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Philippe Camus, M.D.

Dijon, France

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Mercury (Hg) (fluid, metallic, elemental) i.v., i.m.

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VI.j Mercury pulmonary embolism

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Last update : 29/08/2012
 
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Publications

Images in clinical medicine. Pulmonary emboli caused by mercury.
The New England journal of medicine 2013 Nov 21;369;2031 2013 Nov 21
Imaging of nonthrombotic pulmonary embolism: biological materials, nonbiological materials, and foreign bodies.
European journal of radiology 2013 Mar;82;e120-41 2013 Mar
Postoperative systemic dissemination of injected elemental mercury.
Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society 2011 Apr;49;245-7 2011 Apr
[Pulmonary embolism caused by elemental mercury].
Archivos de bronconeumologia 2007 Oct;43;585-7 2007 Oct
An unusual nosocomial pneumonia.
Chest 2002 Sep;122;1077-9 2002 Sep
Intravenous mercury injection and ingestion: clinical manifestations and management.
Journal of toxicology. Clinical toxicology 2001;39;733-8 2001
Images in clinical medicine. Elemental mercury embolism to the lung.
The New England journal of medicine 2000 Jun 15;342;1791 2000 Jun 15
[A case of embolism caused by metallic mercury in a drug addict].
Annali di igiene : medicina preventiva e di comunita 1989;1;673-8 1989
Radiographic aspects of metallic mercury embolism.
AJR. American journal of roentgenology 1980 Nov;135;1079-81 1980 Nov

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