Radio-opaque punctate opacities on the chest radiograph following intravenous injection of a bismuth compound.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
The case history is described of a patient who presented with small rounded punctate metallic opacities widely dispersed on the chest radiograph with accumulation of metallic particles in the right ventricle. Energy dispersive x ray spectroscopy of alveolar macrophages identified a major predominant peak as bismuth. The patient had been injected with a health tonic in Honduras two years earlier.
Medical subject headings
- Bismuth
- Complementary Therapies
- Foreign-Body Migration
- Lung