Cadmium content in human kidney and hair in the Gdansk region

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 224, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 81-85

  Hać, Eugeniusz ^a   Krzyzanowski, Maciej ^a   Krechniak, Jerzy ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Gdansk region; Hair; Renal cortex

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM;

CADMIUM; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; POLLUTION INCIDENCE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY CORTEX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MONITORING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLAND; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADMIUM; DEATH, SUDDEN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HAIR; HUMANS; KIDNEY CORTEX; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POLAND;

POLAND;

EID: 0032509273     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(98)00322-2     Document Type: Article

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