Patients with visual display unit-related facial symptoms are stingers

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 44-45

  Berg, Mats ^a   Lonne Rahm, Sol Britt ^a   Fischer, Torkel ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKING LIFE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN SENSITIVITY; SWEDEN; VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT;

ADULT; COMPUTER TERMINALS; DERMATITIS, CONTACT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRITANTS; LACTIC ACID; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SKIN DISEASES; SWEDEN;

EID: 0031938743     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00015559850135823     Document Type: Article

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