João Paulo Kawaoka Matushita, Roberto Márcio A. Peixoto, Hilton Muniz Leão Filho, Guilherme Carvalho Missiaggia, Ricardo Saraiva Dias, Wilson Campos Tavares Junior, Cristina Sebastião Matushita, José Nelson Mendes Vieira
Radiol Bras 2007;40(3):217-219 - CASE REPORT
A case of a male, 29-year-old patient who, in a suicide attempt, has self-administered a 2 ml injection of metallic mercury into his left arm is reported. Radiological studies have shown the presence of several metallic spheres in the subcutaneous tissue of the olecranal fossa and along the veins of the left arm, with dissemination to lungs, heart, liver, spleen and brain.
João Paulo Kawaoka Matushita, Guilherme Carvalho Missiaggia, Roberto Márcio A. Peixoto, Hilton Muniz Leão Filho, Ricardo Saraiva Dias, Wilson Campos Tavares Junior, Cristina S. Matushita, José Nelson Mendes Vieira, João Paulo K. Matushita Junior
Radiol Bras 2007;40(5):359-361 - CASE REPORT
The authors report a case of a newborn term infant with horseshoe lung associated with supracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage; such association remains unreported in the Western literature.
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