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Abstract
Neurologic disorders associated with exposure to inorganic and organic forms of MERCURY. Acute intoxication may be associated with gastrointestinal disturbances, mental status changes, and PARAPARESIS. Chronic exposure to inorganic mercury usually occurs in industrial workers, and manifests as mental confusion, prominent behavioral changes (including psychosis), DYSKINESIAS, and NEURITIS. Alkyl mercury poisoning may occur through ingestion of contaminated seafood or grain, and its characteristic features include POLYNEUROPATHY; ATAXIA; vision loss; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; and DEAFNESS. (From Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1997, Ch20, pp10-15)
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- Mercurialism, Nervous System
- Mercurialism, Neurologic
- Mercury Poisoning, Nervous System
- Mercury Poisoning, Neurologic
- Mercury-Induced Nervous System Diseases
- Nervous System Diseases, Mercury-Induced
- Nervous System Poisoning, Mercury
- Neurotoxicity Syndrome, Mercury
- Poisoning, Mercury, Nervous System
- Poisoning, Mercury, Neurologic
- Mercury Induced Nervous System Diseases
- Mercury Neurotoxicity Syndrome
- Mercury Neurotoxicity Syndromes
- Nervous System Diseases, Mercury Induced
- Nervous System Mercurialism
- Neurologic Mercurialism
- Neurologic Mercury Poisoning
- Neurotoxicity Syndromes, Mercury
- Poisoning, Neurologic Mercury
- Syndrome, Mercury Neurotoxicity
- Syndromes, Mercury Neurotoxicity
- System Mercurialism, Nervous
- Encephalopathy, Mercury
- Inorganic Mercury Poisoning
- Mad Hatter Disease
- Mad Hatter's Disease
- Mercurial Neuroanesthenia
- Mercurial Psychosis
- Mercury Encephalopathy
- Mercury Poisoning, Inorganic
- Mercury Poisoning, Organic
- Mercury Psychosis
- Minamata Disease
- Organic Mercury Poisoning
- Mad Hatter Diseases
- Mad Hatters Disease
- Neuroanesthenia, Mercurial
- Poisoning, Inorganic Mercury
- Poisoning, Organic Mercury
- Psychosis, Mercurial
- Psychosis, Mercury
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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coord IM with specific mercury cpd (IM) if given
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2000; for MINAMATA DISEASE use MERCURY POISONING 1977-1999
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- Mercury Poisoning (1966-1999)
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- National Library of Medicine. Nervous System Mercury Poisoning. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D020262. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D020262
- Nervous System Mercury Poisoning. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erethism
- Nervous System Mercury Poisoning. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1639246