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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành hóa học dành cho các bạn yêu hóa học tham khảo đề tài: Evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of lead poisoning in a patient with occupational lead exposure: a case presentation | Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology BioMed Central Case report Open Access Evaluation diagnosis and treatment of lead poisoning in a patient with occupational lead exposure a case presentation D souza Sunil Herman Menezes Geraldinet2 and Thuppil Venkatesh2 Address department of Biotechnology MLSC Kasturba Medical College Manipal University Manipal Karnataka India and 2National Referral Center for Lead Poisoning in India NRCLPI Department of Biochemistry St. John s Medical College Bangalore Karnataka India Email D souza Sunil Herman - hsdsouza@gmail.com Menezes Geraldine - drgere@gmail.com Thuppil Venkatesh - venkatesh.thuppil@gmail.com Corresponding author tEqual contributors Published 24 August 2007 Received 26 July 2006 Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2007 2 7 doi 10.1186 1745-6673-2-7 Accepted 24 August 2007 This article is available from http www.occup-med.cOm content 2 1 7 2007 Herman et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http creativecommons.org licenses by 2.0 which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Amongst toxic heavy metals lead ranks as one of the most serious environmental poisons all over the world. Exposure to lead in the home and the workplace results in health hazards to many adults and children causing economic damage which is due to the lack of awareness of the ill effects of lead. We report the case of a 22 year old man working in an unorganized lead acid battery manufacturing unit complaining about a longer history of general body ache lethargy fatigue shoulder joint pain shaking of hands and wrist drop. Patient had blue line at gingivodental junction. Central nervous system CNS examination showed having grade 0 power of extensors of right wrist fingers. Reflexes Supinator- absent Triceps- weak and other deep tendon reflexes- .