Serum aluminium levels of workers in the bauxite mines

Journal of Toxicology - Clinical Toxicology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 645-651

  De Kom, Jules F M ^a   Dissels, Hedwich M H ^b   Van Der Voet, Gijsbert B ^c   De Wolff, Frederik A ^c  

^a Diakonessen Hospital   (Suriname)

^b Department of Surgery   (Suriname)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM;

ADULT; AGED; ALUMINUM FACTORY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; MALE; MINING; NEUROTOXICITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SURINAME;

EID: 0030727566     PISSN: 07313810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15563659709001248     Document Type: Article

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