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Acute alopecia: clue to thallium toxicity
1Department of Dermatology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131.
Pediatric Dermatology
|March 1, 1993
Abstract:
The combination of rapid, diffuse alopecia, and neurologic and gastrointestinal disturbance is pathognomonic for thallium toxicity. The hair mount, showing a tapered or bayonet anagen hair with black pigmentation at the base, may be highly diagnostic before the onset of alopecia. We saw a 10-year-old boy who suffered from thallium poisoning.