Subcutaneous injection of elemental mercury with distant skin lesions.
BACKGROUND
Mercury poisoning presents a variety of clinical pictures depending on chemical structure, amount absorbed, total mercury burden, and individual factors. Distant skin lesions, after subcutaneous injection of metallic mercury, have not been previously described.


METHODS
We present a homicidal, subcutaneous injection of mercury resulting in widespread skin lesions, remote from the radiologically visible mercury. The lesions appeared at 40 days and began to clear at 6 months after the injection.
State University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
E M
EM
Souza
M L
ML
Cintra
V G
VG
Melo
R J
RJ
Vieira
E M
EM
De Capitani
F A
FA
Zambrone
D000328:Adult; D005355:Fibrosis / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005542:Forearm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005549:Foreign-Body Reaction / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D006225:Hand / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007279:Injections, Subcutaneous; D008297:Male; D008628:Mercury / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000097:blood / Q000652:urine; D020262:Mercury Poisoning, Nervous System / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D011859:Radiography; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D013054:Spectrophotometry, Atomic; D016896:Treatment Outcome
D008628:Mercury