Hearing loss from combined exposures among petroleum refinery workers

Scandinavian Audiology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 141-149

  Morata, Thais C ^a,f   Engel, Terry ^a,b   Durão, Alvaro ^c   Costa, Thelma R S ^d   Krieg, Edward F ^a   Dunn, Derek E ^a   Lozano, Maria Angelica ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b USAF   (United States)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e Department of Occupational Health   (Colombia)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKING LIFE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Benzene; Cyclohexane; Ethyl benzene; Hearing; Noise; Solvent mixture; Toluene; Xylene

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; HEARING LOSS; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; NOISE; NOISE POLLUTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DEAFNESS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0030882394     PISSN: 01050397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01050399709074987     Document Type: Article

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