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Clinical Chemistry 43: 1248, 1997;
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(Clinical Chemistry. 1997;43:1248.)
© 1997 American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Inc.

Letters

A Nonoccupational Source of Mercury Intoxication

Perrine Hoeta and Dominique Lison

Unit of Industrial Toxicol., Catholic Univ. of Louvain, Clos Chapelle-aux-Champs, 30.54 1200 Bruxelles, Belgium
a Author for correspondence.


To the Editor:

The sources of exposure to mercury and its compounds are numerous, polymorphic, and often insidious. The fortuitous observation of an increased urinary mercury excretion of 19 µmol/mol creatinine (34 µg/g creatinine) in a gendarme lead us to search for the source of exposure, there being no indication of an occupational exposure to mercury.

Increased excretion of mercury was confirmed in a second sample taken by his general practitioner. A measurement of urinary Hg was then suggested to all the members of the family.

His two sons had values [0.73 and 1.13 µmol/mol creatinine (1.3 and 2 µg/g)] within . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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