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Abstract
A condition seen primarily in childhood, most often resulting from chronic exposure to MERCURY COMPOUNDS which may result in encephalopathy and POLYNEUROPATHY. Clinical features include pain, swelling and pinkish discoloration of the fingers and toes, weakness in the extremities, extreme irritability, HYPERESTHESIA, and alterations in level of consciousness. (From Menkes, Textbook of Child Neurology, 5th ed, p603)
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14 entry terms
- Acrodynic Erythema
- Chronic Childhood Mercurialism
- Feer Disease
- Feer's Disease
- Pink Disease
- Swift Disease
- Swift's Disease
- Childhood Mercurialism, Chronic
- Childhood Mercurialisms, Chronic
- Chronic Childhood Mercurialisms
- Erythema, Acrodynic
- Feers Disease
- Mercurialism, Chronic Childhood
- Swifts Disease
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Acrodynia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000170. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000170
- Acrodynia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrodynia
- Acrodynia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2170663