title: EEG findings in an eleven-year-old girl with mercury intoxication.
abstract: An 11-year-old female was seen at our outpatient clinic with a broad variety of symptoms that were due to elemental mercury intoxication. Electromyography and sequential electroencephalography findings obtained at days 2, 36, 88 and 148 are described. The patient was treated with chelation therapy during which she clinically improved considerably. A profound decrease in urinary mercury concentration occurred as well as normalization of the electroencephalogram.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. maikel.setz@gmail.com
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Setz
authors.forename: A A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: van der Linde
authors.forename: G P J M
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Gerrits
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Meulstee
mesh_terms: D002614:Chelating Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008630:Mercury Poisoning / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014494:Unithiol / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D002614:Chelating Agents; D014494:Unithiol