Occupational asthma due to a repair process for polyethylene-coated electrical cables

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 33-34

  Stenton, S C ^a   Kelly, C A ^a   Walters, E H ^a   Hendrick, D J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYETHYLENE;

ADULT; CABLEMAKING INDUSTRY; CASE REPORT; CUMENYL PEROXIDE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHALATION TEST; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA;

ADULT; ASTHMA; BRONCHIAL PROVOCATION TESTS; CASE REPORT; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; ELECTRIC WIRING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS; PEROXIDES; POLYETHYLENES;

EID: 0024539287     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/39.1.33     Document Type: Article

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