Human contact with mercury has been ongoing for centuries
and has been previously considered a legitimate means of treating different
Cutaneous and systemic conditions. Cutaneous mercury granuloma is rarely
encountered. Clinically it may pose difficulty in diagnosis. Here, we report a
23-year-old male presented with erythematous, nodular lesions over the forearm
and anterior aspect of chest wall. X-ray showed diffuse deposition of metallic
material (mercury) in the soft-tissue upto subcutaneous plane in the left
forearm and chest wall. Metallic mercury in tissue sections appear as dark
black, opaque, spherical globules of varying size and number. They are
surrounded by granulomatous foreign-body reaction. It is composed of foreign
body giant cells and mixed inflammatory infiltrate composed of histiocytes,
lymphocytes, plasma cells, and few eosinophils.
Author(s) Details:
Kalpana Bothale,
Department of Pathology, NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences and
Research Centre, Nagpur- 440019, India.
Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/ANUMS-V9/article/view/13622
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