Concept information
Preferred term
Mercury Poisoning, Nervous System
Type
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Definition
- Neurologic disorders associated with exposure to inorganic and organic forms of MERCURY. Acute intoxication may be associated with gastrointestinal disturbances, mental status changes, and PARAPARESIS. Chronic exposure to inorganic mercury usually occurs in industrial workers, and manifests as mental confusion, prominent behavioral changes (including psychosis), DYSKINESIAS, and NEURITIS. Alkyl mercury poisoning may occur through ingestion of contaminated seafood or grain, and its characteristic features include POLYNEUROPATHY; ATAXIA; vision loss; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; and DEAFNESS. (From Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1997, Ch20, pp10-15)
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Entry terms
- Mercurialism, Nervous System
- Mercurialism, Neurologic
- Mercury-Induced Nervous System Diseases
- Mercury Poisoning, Neurologic
- Nervous System Diseases, Mercury-Induced
- Nervous System Poisoning, Mercury
- Neurotoxicity Syndrome, Mercury
- Poisoning, Mercury, Nervous System
- Poisoning, Mercury, Neurologic
Allowable Qualifier(s)
- blood (Qualifier)
- cerebrospinal fluid (Qualifier)
- classification (Qualifier)
- complications (Qualifier)
- congenital (Qualifier)
- diagnosis (Qualifier)
- diagnostic imaging (Qualifier)
- diet therapy (Qualifier)
- drug therapy (Qualifier)
- economics (Qualifier)
- embryology (Qualifier)
- enzymology (Qualifier)
- epidemiology (Qualifier)
- ethnology (Qualifier)
- etiology (Qualifier)
- genetics (Qualifier)
- history (Qualifier)
- immunology (Qualifier)
- metabolism (Qualifier)
- microbiology (Qualifier)
- mortality (Qualifier)
- nursing (Qualifier)
- parasitology (Qualifier)
- pathology (Qualifier)
- physiopathology (Qualifier)
- prevention & control (Qualifier)
- psychology (Qualifier)
- radiotherapy (Qualifier)
- rehabilitation (Qualifier)
- surgery (Qualifier)
- therapy (Qualifier)
- urine (Qualifier)
- veterinary (Qualifier)
- virology (Qualifier)
In other languages
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French
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Atteintes neurologiques de l'hydrargyrisme
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Neuropathies toxiques dues au mercure
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Troubles neurologiques de l'hydrargyrisme
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Troubles neurologiques de l'intoxication mercurielle
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-CD0QM6RB-H
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