Pediatric Neurology Briefs (May 1996)

Lead Intoxication in Children with Autism

  • J Gordon Millichap

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-10-5-12
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 5
pp. 39 – 40

Abstract

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The incidence of reexposure to lead poisoning in 17 children with pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), including autism, compared to a randomly selected group of 30 children without PDD who were treated for plumbism over the same six year period, was evaluated by a retrospective chart review at the lead treatment program, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Poison Control System, Boston, MA.

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