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Parkinsonism after acute cadmium poisoning
B Okuda1, Y Iwamoto, H Tachibana
1Hyogo College of Medicine, Fifth Department of Internal Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan.
Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery
|March 10, 1998
Abstract:
A 64-year-old man suffered from acute exposure to cadmium, followed by multiple organ failure. Three months after exposure, the patient developed parkinsonian features. The case suggests that cadmium intoxication may damage the basal ganglia, resulting in parkinsonism.