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Lead poisoning from a retained bullet: a case report and review
1Department of Medicine, State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, USA.
Journal of the Association for Academic Minority Physicians : the Official Publication of the Association for Academic Minority Physicians
|May 29, 2000
Abstract:
A 47-year-old man with a prior gunshot wound presented with arthritis, constipation, abdominal pain, and weight loss. Arthrocentesis did not reveal the cause of the arthritic complaints, but lead poisoning was suspected and confirmed. We present this case along with a short review of the literature pertaining to this often overlooked and reversible cause of lead poisoning.