ArticleClinical case reports2026
Mercury in the Needle: A Case of Malicious Injection and Toxicity.
Article in Clinical case reports, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Mercury in the Needle: A Case of Malicious Injection and Toxicity.Clinical case reports · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Intentional or accidental injection of mercury into soft tissue is rare. Mercury toxicity typically arises from ingestion or inhalation with instances of subcutaneous injection documented in a limited number of case studies. Most reported cases involve either accidental exposure or deliberate acts, often presenting as painful granulomas, with systemic symptoms a rarity. We present a compelling case involving a 39-year-old woman who developed a localized, painful gluteal lesion filled with mercury following multiple injections of what were purported to be multivitamin ampoules, administered by her ex-husband, a healthcare professional. Remarkably, the patient exhibited a serum mercury level of 345 μg/L without significant systemic manifestations which decreased after a course of treatment with succimer. This report highlights one of the rarest, if not the only documented instance of mercury toxicity caused by subcutaneous injection, potentially with homicidal intent.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.