Subcutaneous Injection of Mercury: "Warding Off Evil"
Mercury is hyperechoic on sonograms despite being liquid at room temperature. It is a safe, inexpensive, portable, and readily available imaging modality ( Romero et al. 2004 ). Two deaths have been reported following subcutaneous injection ( Chodorowski et al. 1997 ); cause of death was renal failure in one patient and empyema in the lung of ...