Yotsuyanagi T, Yokoi K, Sawada Y
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Japan.
J Trauma. 1996 May;40(5):847-9. doi: 10.1097/00005373-199605000-00033.
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.