[Parallel determination of blood lead levels and clinical investigation of children with surgical diseases in an endangered area (author's transl)].
In an industrial area with heavy metal-processing industry investigations were made on 203 children with surgical diseases, questioning whether there is a correlation between blood lead level on one hand, and kind of disease, season of year, load by lead fall-out in the residence on the other hand. A correlation between blood lead level and amount of lead fall-out in the residence of the patients could not be proved.--Seasonal changes did not influence the height of the average blood lead level.--Stress situations like operations and serious diseases had no significant influence either. Parallel determination of 139 blood samples in two institutes showed essential differences in the individual results.--Conclusions of earlier investigators in the same industrial area could not be proved in essential items as mentioned above.
D000005:Abdomen / Q000601:surgery*; D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001062:Appendectomy; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000032:analysis*; D005860:Germany, West; D059685:Herniorrhaphy; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000601:surgery; D007854:Lead / Q000032:analysis*; D007855:Lead Poisoning / Q000097:blood*; D012621:Seasons; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000601:surgery
D007854:Lead
Doppelbestimmung des Blut-Bleispiegels und klinische Untersuchung bei chirurgisch erkrankten Kindern in einem Risikogebiet.