Other terms
Chronic Childhood Mercurialism,Childhood Mercurialism, Chronic,Childhood Mercurialisms, Chronic,Chronic Childhood Mercurialisms,Mercurialism, Chronic Childhood,Feer Disease,Pink Disease,Swift Disease,Swift's Disease,Swifts Disease,Acrodynic Erythema,Erythema, Acrodynic,Feer's Disease,Feers Disease
Description
Acrodynia: 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)
Pervious tree
Next tree
Other locations in tree
Legal notice
The U.S. National Library of Medicine is the creator, maintainer, and provider of the data above.
The version of the data is 2010 MeSH. Last reviewed April 26, 2010. No modification has been made in the content of the file.
Neither the United States Government, nor any of its agencies, contractors, subcontractors or employees makes any warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to data contained in the database, and, furthermore, assumes no legal liability for any party's use, or the results of such use, of any part of the database.
You will not assert any proprietary rights to any portion of the database, or represent the database or any part thereof to anyone as other than a United States Government database.
The MeSH data carry an international copyright outside the United States, its Territories or Possessions. These terms and conditions are in effect as long as the user retains any of the MeSH data obtained from this site.