Acute alopecia: clue to thallium toxicity.
The combination of rapid, diffuse alopecia, and neurologic and gastrointestinal disturbance is pathognomonic for thallium toxicity. The hair mount, showing a tapered or bayonet anagen hair with black pigmentation at the base, may be highly diagnostic before the onset of alopecia. We saw a 10-year-old boy who suffered from thallium poisoning.
Department of Dermatology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131.
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D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000139:chemically induced; D000208:Acute Disease; D000505:Alopecia / Q000139:chemically induced*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010292:Paresthesia / Q000139:chemically induced; D012640:Seizures / Q000139:chemically induced; D013793:Thallium / Q000506:poisoning*
D013793:Thallium