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Clinical and electrodiagnostic follow-up of an adolescent poisoned with thallium.
No full textWe report a six-year clinical and electrodiagnos-tic follow-up of an adolescent patient with acute thallium
poisoning from attempted suicide. During the acute stage
the patient showed gastrointestinal disturbances, alopecia,
and clinical and electrodiagnostic signs of severe polyneu-ropathy. Three years after poisoning, his neurological
symptomatology was making progress, and electrophysio-logic signs of peripheral neuropathy were mainly confined
to lower limbs. Six years after intoxication, he was still
complaining of weakness and sensory disturbances at the
level of distal lower extremities; his neurologic and elec-trodiagnostic abnormalities affected mainly the feet. In this
case report we underline the importance of early diagnosis
and treatment to prevent neurological damage and the role
of serial electromyographic and nerve conduction studies
in thallium poisoning. These investigations allowed the
authors to depict the electrophysiologic course of peripher-al nervous system involvement over six years following
poisonin
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