Art glassware and sinonasal cancer: Report of three cases

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 31-35

  Battista, G ^a,c   Bartoli, D ^b   Iaia, T E ^b   Dini, F ^a   Fiumalbi, C ^a   Giglioli, S ^a   Valiani, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b Local Health Authority   (Italy)

^c Cattedra Med Preventiva Lavoratori   (Italy)

Author keywords

arsenic exposure; art glassware; sentinel health events; sinonasal cancer

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; DUST EXPOSURE; GLASS INDUSTRY; HUMAN; MALE; MELANOMA; MULTICENTER STUDY; NOSE CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SILICOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ARSENIC; ART; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHROMIUM; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GLASS; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES; NICKEL; NOSE NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARANASAL SINUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029775196     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199607)30:1<31::AID-AJIM5>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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