Facial injury by mercury from a broken thermometer.
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.
Yotsuyanagi
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Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Japan.
Yokoi
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Sawada
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D002675:Child, Preschool; D005151:Facial Injuries / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D015745:Granuloma, Foreign-Body / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008630:Mercury Poisoning / Q000209:etiology*; D013821:Thermometers / Q000009:adverse effects*; D014950:Wounds, Penetrating / Q000209:etiology*