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Facial injury by mercury from a broken thermometer
T Yotsuyanagi1, K Yokoi, Y Sawada
1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Japan.
The Journal of Trauma
|May 1, 1996
Abstract:
The case of a 2-year-old girl with a facial soft-tissue injury from an accident with a mercury thermometer is presented. All tissues containing droplets of metallic mercury should be removed immediately and careful examination for signs of mercury poisoning should be conducted over the long term.