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A rare case of self-injection of elemental mercury

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Research Notes, March 2016
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Title
A rare case of self-injection of elemental mercury
Published in
BMC Research Notes, March 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13104-016-1992-8
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Singankutti Mudalige Thanuja Nilushi Priyangika, W. G. S. G. Karunarathna, Isurujith Liyanage, Methsala Gunawardana, Buddini Dissanayake, Sumeda Udumalgala, Chamith Rosa, Thilina Samarasinghe, Pravin Wijesinghe, Aruna Kulatunga

Abstract

Self-injection of elemental mercury is a rare finding especially in healthy people who are mentally sound. Early detection and removal of mercury from the body by chelation and physical removal of a stored injected site is required to prevent long term toxicity. A 15 year old previously healthy girl presented with an acute febrile illness with a generalized maculopapular skin rash for 3 days with a preceding history of self-injection of mercury to both her forearms. This was an imitating experimental act influenced by a movie and she was mentally sound. Very high whole blood mercury levels, x-rays of the forearms and histology confirmed mercury poisoning. Self-injection of elemental mercury can also occur in mentally sound people and rapid diagnosis and decontamination is required. This also signifies the importance of imposing limitations for visual media which could misguide minors and lead those to imitate and cause serious self-harm.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 23 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 22%
Researcher 3 13%
Student > Bachelor 3 13%
Other 2 9%
Unspecified 1 4%
Other 2 9%
Unknown 7 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Chemical Engineering 3 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 13%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 9%
Environmental Science 1 4%
Unspecified 1 4%
Other 4 17%
Unknown 9 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 February 2021.
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#2,218,214
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Outputs from BMC Research Notes
#284
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#38,395
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#12
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