Clinical Pediatrics: Open Access
Open Access

Department of Pediatrics, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Palo Alto, California, USA

Publications

• Case Report   
  4-Year-Old Boy with Right Scrotal Pain, Discoloration and Swelling
  Author(s): Ashley Landsman*
  
  Heavy metal toxicity from soft tissue sources is rare and carries unique diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Our case involves a previously healthy 4-year-old boy who presented to the emergency department due to worsening right hemiscrotal pain and swelling for 10 days, originally attributed to a torsed, unviable testicle. On surgical exploration, several tiny metallic beads were found and later identified as containing mercury... View More»
  

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