Thallium toxicity in humans.

Heavy metal poisoning: clinical presentations and pathophysiology.

Humans have had a long and tumultuous relationship with heavy metals. Their ubiquitous nature and our reliance on them for manufacturing have resulted at times in exposures sufficient to cause systemic toxicity. Their easy acquisition and potent toxicity have also made them popular choices for criminal poisonings. This article examines the clinical manifestation and pathophysiology of poisoning...

Thallium toxicity: A growing concern

This review article deals with the growing concern of the toxicity of thallium. This article describes the characteristics of thallium, its potential sources of exposure, kinetics, and toxicity on human being and diagnosis of thallium poisoning. This article also describes some episodes of thallium poisoning arising from both occupational and nonoccupational exposure.

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 ...

Frenching of Tobacco Distinguished from Thallium Toxicity by Spectrographic

Several theories as to the cause of tobacco frenching have been proposed, but each in its turn has been found to be erroneous. Kecently, it has been postulated that frenching is probably a symptom of thallium toxicity. Since the demonstration of the presence of thallium in frenched tobacco tissue in toxic amounts or its absence is essential to an evaluation of the thalhum-toxicity theory, and t...

A case report: thallium toxicity in the dog.