Citation

Yotsuyanagi T, Yokoi K, Sawada Y. J. Trauma 1996; 40(5): 847-849.

Affiliation

Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Japan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8614096

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.