[Application of the national diagnostic criteria of occupational mercury poisoning].

Objective: To investigate the clinical manifestation of patients with renal injury induced by chronic mercury intoxication and the application of the diagnostic criteria of occupational mercury poisoning.

Methods: The clinical data of 8 patients with chronic occupational mercury intoxication were analysed and evaluated.

Results: All the observed clinical signs of chronic mercury intoxication correspond with the items of the diagnostic criteria of occupational mercury poisoning.