-transparent.png){kind=logo}
This report includes five cases afflicted by chronic mercury poisoning which was observed in Iraq in 1972. All five cases showed the symptomatology of a severe cerebral damage combined with peripheral nerve lesion. The clinical picture reveals an apallic syndrome or a prestage ensuring in the full-blown picture. The combination of CNS lesions with polyneuropathy is typical of mercury poisoning with failure of all brain functions and the appearance of brain stem automatism, combined with severe muscular atrophy. When such conditions are established the remission seems to be impossible. The historical as well as the clinical and morphological facts of the Minamata disease is reviewed. The different stages of chronic mercury poisoning in Iraq are described.
F Gerstenbrand, and
T Hamdi, and
P Kothbauer, and
H Rustam, and
M Al Badri
July 1953,
Nordisk medicin,
F Gerstenbrand, and
T Hamdi, and
P Kothbauer, and
H Rustam, and
M Al Badri
November 1962,
Bratislavske lekarske listy,
F Gerstenbrand, and
T Hamdi, and
P Kothbauer, and
H Rustam, and
M Al Badri
November 1951,
Lancet (London, England),
F Gerstenbrand, and
T Hamdi, and
P Kothbauer, and
H Rustam, and
M Al Badri
April 1946,
British journal of industrial medicine,
F Gerstenbrand, and
T Hamdi, and
P Kothbauer, and
H Rustam, and
M Al Badri
February 1952,
Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift,
F Gerstenbrand, and
T Hamdi, and
P Kothbauer, and
H Rustam, and
M Al Badri
April 1966,
Bollettino della Societa italiana di biologia sperimentale,
F Gerstenbrand, and
T Hamdi, and
P Kothbauer, and
H Rustam, and
M Al Badri
February 1993,
British journal of industrial medicine,
F Gerstenbrand, and
T Hamdi, and
P Kothbauer, and
H Rustam, and
M Al Badri
January 1977,
Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine,
F Gerstenbrand, and
T Hamdi, and
P Kothbauer, and
H Rustam, and
M Al Badri
January 1977,
Monographien aus dem Gesamtgebiete der Psychiatrie,
F Gerstenbrand, and
T Hamdi, and
P Kothbauer, and
H Rustam, and
M Al Badri
January 1973,
Folia psychiatrica et neurologica japonica,
