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  • Title: [[Colic-like abdominal pain, anemia].
    Author: Steurer J, Siegenthaler W.
    Journal: Schweiz Rundsch Med Prax; 1989 Feb 21; 78(8):197-9. PubMed ID: 2493671.
    Abstract:
    A 41-year old man suffered from increasing attacks of colic-like abdominal pain. Laboratory tests revealed only slight anemia. Microscopic evaluation of blood smears was indicative of lead-poisoning. Elevated values for metabolites of heme-synthesis and an elevated lead concentration in blood confirmed the diagnosis. The source of poisoning could be found: lead leaching from a presumed "tin-pitcher" into cherry-brandy. After reduction of the plasmatic lead concentration with sodium-calcium-EDTA the patient became well within days.
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