Thallium Poisoning

Management of thallium poisoning.

A case of acute thallium poisoning in a 67-year-old Chinese woman is described. She presented with acute pain in the chest, abdomen, and lower limbs. The diagnosis was not made, however, until alopecia developed. Detoxification treatment, which included Prussian blue (potassium ferric hexacyanoferrate) was then given, but further neurological damage occurred. The patient's motor function recove...

Thallium poisoning in the dog.

Acute Alopecia: Evidence to Thallium Poisoning

Thallium is a toxic heavy metal often involved in criminal poisonings and occasionally in accidental poisoning. Here, we report a case of acute, nonintentional thallium poisoning due to thallium-contaminated alternative medicine for its rarity and to create awareness about the combination of rapid, diffuse alopecia with neurologic and gastrointestinal symptoms among practitioners, professionals...

[Nine cases of criminal thallium poisoning].

Grand Rounds Guy 's Hospital Thallium poisoning

BMJ 1993;306:1527-9 Thallium is a heavy metal whose salts are used in some rodent poisons and in the manufacture of optical lenses, semiconductors, scintillation counters, low temperature thermometers and switching devices, green coloured fireworks, and imitation jeweliery, and as chemical catalysts. In clinical practice thallium isotopes are used in cardiac scanning,12 but the use of thallium ...