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Mercury aspiration from a broken thermometer
1 Department of Paediatrics/Neonatology, Mayday University Hospital, 530 London Road, Croydon, Surrey, CR7 7YE, UK
2 Department of Radiology, Mayday University Hospital, 530 London Road, Croydon, CR7 7YE, UK
Correspondence to:
Rohit Saxena, rohitlibran2002@doctors.org.uk
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A 3-year-old boy presented to our Accident and Emergency (A&E) department after biting on a glass mercury thermometer. He was clinically stable. A chest x ray revealed small globules of mercury in the lungs (fig 1).
Figure 1 An anterior–posterior erect chest and abdominal radiograph shows multiple specks of metallic density over the right middle lobe and lower lobe proximally with a speck | |||||||||
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