Chronic solvent neurotoxicity in New Zealand: Notified cases between 1993 and 1997

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 111, Issue 1077, 1998, Pages 425-427

  Dryson, E W ^a,b   Ogden, J A ^b  

^a Department of Labour ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOLVENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEW ZEALAND; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEW ZEALAND; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOLVENTS;

EID: 0032514809     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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