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ID (ISN) del documento56462
Número CIS 91-1271
ISBN(s) 92-4-157118-7
Año 1991
Número de serie Environmental Health Criteria 118
Autor(es)
International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS)
Título Inorganic mercury
Información bibliográfica World Health Organization, Distribution and Sales Service, 1211 Genève 27, Switzerland, 1991. 168p. Illus. 418 ref. Price: CHF 20.00 (CHF 14.00 in developing countries).
Resumen Acute inhalation exposure to mercury vapour may be followed by chest pains, dyspnoea, coughing, haemoptysis, and sometimes interstitial pneumonitis leading to death. The ingestion of mercury compounds, in particular mercuric chloride, has caused ulcerative gastroenteritis and acute tubular necrosis. The central nervous system is the critical organ for mercury vapour exposure. Subacute exposure has given rise to psychotic reactions characterised by delirium, hallucinations, and suicidal tendency and occupational exposure has resulted in erethism. The kidney is the critical organ following the ingestion of inorganic divalent mercury salts and occupational exposure to metallic mercury is associated with the development of proteinuria. Both metallic mercury vapour and mercury compounds have given rise to contact dermatitis. Detailed summaries in French and Spanish.
Descriptores (primarios) PISSC; mercurio y sus compuestos; valoración del riesgo; toxicología; mercurio
Descriptores (secundarios) efectos tóxicos; revisión bibliográfica; efectos esterilizantes; OIT; PNUMA; documentación de base; metabolización; enfermedades del sistema nervioso central; enfermedades del rinon; proteinuria; eczema; OMS
Tipo de documento E - Libros, informes, actas
Tema(s) Sustancias tóxicas y peligrosas
Broad subject area(s) Riesgos químicos
Navegación por categoria(s) Risk evaluation
Mercury and compounds
Inorganic substances
Genetic factors in reaction to exposures