Clinical characteristics of chemical sensitivity: An illustrative case history of asthma and MCS

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 105, Issue SUPPL. 2, 1997, Pages 437-441

  Ross, Gerald H ^a  

^a Environmental Health Center Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Allergy; Asthma; Bronchospasm; Hypersensitivity; Multiple chemical sensitivity; Reactive airways dysfunction syndrome; Solvent exposure

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ADULT; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGY; ARTHRALGIA; BRAIN METABOLISM; CASE REPORT; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTAMINATION; DYSAUTONOMIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIGRAINE; MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY; MYALGIA; NEUROTOXICITY; NUTRITIONAL INTOLERANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPTOM; THERMOREGULATION;

EID: 0030915922     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.97105s2437     Document Type: Conference Paper

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