Chitkara R, Seriff N S, Kinas H Y
Chest. 1978 Feb;73(2):234-6. doi: 10.1378/chest.73.2.234.
This report describes a 23-year-old white man who injected metallic mercury from a thermometer into his antecubital vein in an attempt at suicide. Despite the persistence of mercury throughout both pulmonary fields on chest x-ray films over an 18-month period of observation, no clinical or physiologic derangement of pulmonary function has developed. In addition, no clinical or biochemical evidence of acute or chronic mercury poisoning in any other organ has appeared during these 18 months, even though metallic mercury is seen in the abdominal viscera on roentgenographic examination. The literature on suicidal and accidental poisoning with metallic mercury is reviewed.
本报告描述了一名23岁的白人男性，他为自杀而将温度计中的金属汞注入肘前静脉。在18个月的观察期内，尽管胸部X光片显示双肺野均持续存在汞，但未出现肺功能的临床或生理紊乱。此外，在这18个月期间，即使在X线检查中发现腹部脏器中有金属汞，但在任何其他器官中均未出现急性或慢性汞中毒的临床或生化证据。本文对金属汞自杀和意外中毒的文献进行了综述。
