Toenail samples as an indicator of drinking water arsenic exposure

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 849-852

  Karagas, Margaret R ^a   Morris, J Steven ^b   Weiss, Julia E ^a   Spate, Vickie ^b   Baskett, Connie ^b   Greenberg, E Robert ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER; WELL WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NAIL; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARSENIC; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAILS; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; PILOT PROJECTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TOES; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0029962715     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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