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2155304

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-4-6
pubmed:abstractText
A 41-year-old vintner attempting suicide ingested 8-9 g of arsenic and developed a symmetric polyneuropathy with acute Wallerian degeneration of myelinated fibers. Under treatment with modified British Anti-Lewisite (BAL; "Dimaval") his polyneuropathy slowly, but incompletely, subsided over three years at which time another sural nerve biopsy specimen showed regenerative proliferation of myelinated and unmyelinated axons but no signs of Wallerian degeneration. By laser microprobe mass analysis (LAMMA) arsenic was located in the first biopsied sural nerve specimen but not in the second specimen. These findings demonstrated: 1) arsenic induced serial morphometric and electron microscopic findings of nerve fiber degeneration and regeneration, 2) documentation of arsenic within myelinated nerve fibers, and 3) the usefulness of the LAMMA technique as a diagnostic procedure in this context.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0022-3069
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
49
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
137-49
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Polyneuropathy due to acute arsenic intoxication: biopsy studies.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathology, University of Mainz, FRG.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports